Vladimir and Suzdal

This weekend we went to Vladimir and Suzdal!

Suzdal is this small town between Nizhnii and Moscow that has 150 churches crammed in it; my favorite place we have been so far. The churches are so cool and the whole town is so small and cute. There was one church we had to walk 2 miles in the snow to get to... up hill both ways haha just kidding. But it really was 2 miles in the snow across a giant field which is pretty far in deep snow with freezing wind. We were all skipping and being retarded though so it was fun.

The hotel we stayed in had windows without screens and we stayed on the 14th floor. The first night a girl was brushing her teeth on the window sill and randomly spit the toothpaste out the window and we watched it sail all the way down and explode on the ground. We were like ahhh that was awesome! So then at every meal we would sneak some squishy food up to the room and chuck it out the window and watch it splat it was so awesome. The picture is Crystal and I spitting toothpaste out the window.

This weekend is the big Valentines Day party on campus, can't wait to see what goes down. I'll update about that next!

Snowboarding in Nizhnii

This past weekend we all went snowboarding!

The first day we went to a park right down the road from school which was so much fun. There was only one run though and no chair lift haha. Ghetto. The second day we went to a bigger park with more runs and a chair lift, it was so cool! The park was right next to the river (which is completely frozen over with ice fisherman on it all the time). Crystal and I ran out onto the river for a second so we could say we stood on the frozen Volga River.

This weekend we're going to Vladimir, a small town between Moscow and Nizhnii with a famous church or statue or something. I'm more excited about the mugs though! They have these awesome tea mugs with animals as the handles, they're so cool! Some of the locals have them so we're all excited to get new tea mugs this weekend. The church/ statue or whatever will probably be cool too haha.