Baltic Cruise: St. Petersburg, Russia

First off - I highly recommend St. Petersburg. It turns out that you can make a pretty beautiful city when you have years and years of tsars collecting money from the citizens and never really having to give any of it back. Everybody had a palace, the Tsar, the Tsar's mom, the Tsar's brother. And every time there was a new Tsar you had to build a new Winter and Summer palace. Absolutely insane. 

Mom at Catherine's Palace

Me, looking like a dorky Tourist, at Peter's Palace

Inside Peterhof

Random Russian Church

We stayed in St. Petersburg for two days, so since it was the home of Tchaichovsky, we had to see some Russian Ballet. We saw Swan Lake - it was pretty great. I loved the Champagne intermission - we should do that at every show.

I'll throw in a random Rodin - because I love it. The Hermitage museum was full of amazing art and sculpture.

The Church of the Spilled Blood was certainly a highlight - it was absolutely amazing to see in person.

Amazingly, we managed to catch a glimpse of the Solar Eclipse while we were out there. It was tough to get a picture of it, but the camera did manage to capture it when it was showing through the clouds.

Mom and I took approximately a billion pictures in St. Petersburg, I imagine you'll be satisfied with just a taste. :)

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