Yes, Ryan... Olivia and I know it was a great find, but do you really have to buy the SAME jacket?

Today was pretty fun.  Extremely cold and then extremely warm. ugh.  We were suppose to meet the guy interns at Ismaylavo park at 10AM, but when they called at quarter to we were still in bed.  lol.  It took us awhile to get going and then took as awhile to get there since Ismaylavo is on the other side of the city entirely.  It's this HUGE outdoor market... like an oversized flea market. There are so many amazing things there and it starts to go up towards these huge castle like buildings, it's so pretty.  We had lunch there, ate it outside... we all had shashlik, it's like a really good kabob with wine... hot, red wine. AMAZING.  I bought two matryoshka dolls, the stackable dolls.  One was a packer one and the first player was Rodgers and then as you unstacked them and they got smaller it went Jennings, Driver, Woodson, and Mathews.  I also got a Red Wings one that went Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Erickson, Howard... definitely made me think of Jared.  I saw one that I intend to buy later that had Medvedev and Putin on the big one and then it went Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Stalin, and Lenin... it was amusing.


After Ismaylavo we went to an underground mall near Red Square.  We got off at a station just before the mall and had to exit and then go back down.  Therefore, we had to walk past the entrance to red square and there were SO many police men... it wasn't even close to the time of the riots and there were fences and gates and police men everywhere. The entrance to the metro right outside Red Square was closed off and there were even officers patrolling the mall.  It was eerie.  Olivia and I made a great find... we had been looking for brown, light, springy leather jackets (pleather, actually) and the cheapest one we had found was $70 and then we went to the New Yorker and found one for a little under $30.... YAY! It was such a good deal that one of the male interns, Ryan, decided to buy it too... lol hmmmm.  I got really warm in the mall because I was dressed for Ismaylavo and it started to get unbearable so we headed towards the metro.  When we got off near the embassy we decided to go grocery shopping and picked up a few things, including a $3 bottle of Russian vodka (small bottle, less than 750) and I've been at the apartment ever since.  I bought some hair dye and Olivia helped me color my hair... it's just a darker brown... I like it :)


I made a real home cooked meal this evening!  I made some rice and then put chicken breasts on the bottom of a dish, covered it with cream of mushroom soup, and put the rice on top and baked it for an hour.  It was SO good.  And there's enough left overs for both of us to have another meal!


Now I'm just going to watch Bones and Law and Order and drift of to sleep...