St. Petersburg

Hi All. End of our first day in St. Petersburg. A beautiful city built on canals, rivers, and full of huge ornate palaces along side the river embankments.

Attached are a whole bunch of photos from around town: The Hermitage, to statues of Peter the Great, there were wedding groups taking tons of photos outside in 0 degree weather.

We just returned from seeing the Mariinsky (aka Kirov) Ballet perform a Russian work call "Legend of Love." Packed house full of children and men in suits. What a beautiful theatre. While we were disappointed to miss seeing the Bolshoi theater due to renovations, we were thrilled to get a glimpse of the Mariinsky.

Its humbling to realize that we had the rare experience of seeing the Bolshoi Ballet and the Mariinsky Ballet on two consecutive nights with an 8 hour train ride in between.

On and one photo of some billboards of upcoming performances by 50 cent and Korn in the land of ballet.