On a couple of our other brave adenturings into the deep, dark , mysteries of Moscow, we were able to make it to Red Square and view parts of the Kremlin, Lenin's eternal tomb, and St. Basil's Catherdral. They were all so beautiful and enourmous.....even more magnificient in person!! I wish we had more time to spend there and tour some of the armories and see some of the thrones of the Czars and Czarinas........supposidly very ornate and beautiful. Unfortunately, our little man did what I call 'blowing a gasket", but on second thought, he did what I would classify as......BLOWING AN ENTIRE ENGINE!!! If you zoom up on the picture....you can see the face of the little guy is completely red and his scream sounded like the alarm at the Kremlin going off. In fact, these soldiers showed up immediately to protect the Motherland!! HA!! We tried to eat in MacDonalds on Red Square...by then he was really in frenzy! You wouldn 't believe all the looks I got in there holding a SCREAMING baby. I was ready to post a sign overhead stating "Institutionalized Child: Translation-- Does not like to be held or rocked. It was a sight non-the-less! I finally got him halfway calmed down by looking at the display of Happy Meal toys.......it was less than efficient, but worked enough to get some bread crusts down him and refain some control!! The top picture is "Sasha passed out" from being so worked up!! Poor Little Guy!! HEY!! What am I saying??? Poor Little Family!! A blogger friend of mine suggested getting a videotape of his "blowout"....ans she swears when the child "views" the tape and sees their behavior....that it cures it!! Maybe I should try it!!
The Bolshoi Ballet was performing Swan Lake and Tavia and Remmy and I went, while Wayne stayed home with the boys (he said they got along famously!!). The ballet was SO AWESOME!! And......(hold your breath.....and drum roll please.....) We EVEN took the Metro and got there all by ourselves (using our intelligent cyrillic skills interpreting the Russian alphabet, using our incredible speaking skills conversing in Parouskie with the natives (more like Izven-ye-tiah -Excuse me- Gydere blah, blah blah ---Where is....? OR my personal favorite: "Goo-vad-etee Parouskie??" HA!! At Any rate....we rode the Metro ALL OVER Moscow for 3 days and got where we wanted to go!! I am so proud of myself!! (Well. there was this one day we had to call a cab to take us home, because we apparently took the wrong turn out of the metro station and got "turned around" so to speak, and then did not seem to be able to get to where we wanted to go........but Wayne was in charge that day!! HA!! The inside of each Metro station looks like an art museum. I'll post more on that at another time! Wow, did we ever have a fun and interesting time!! OK.....now.....Where is my Navigator???? Smiles!!
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Adorable picture of him sleeping :) Sounds like you really took advantage of exploring the area!
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