At JFK headed to Helsinki then St Petersburg

Miles wanted to be sure we didn't forget to pack him!

Peter the Great

Saint-Petersburg is known as the Venice of the North

We took two extensive canal rides...

Overlooking Petropavlovsk "Peter-and-Paul" Fortress

Cruiser AURORA whence the 1917 Revolution began

Cathedral of the Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg

Facade of the Hermitage Museum - Winter Palace

KFC on fabled Nevskiy Prospect

One of the many St. Pete canals

On the Neva River across from the Hermitage

The Russian Delegation - Departure Day from St Pete

Jonah almost adopted by Colonel "Alex"

Nevskiy Prospekt - Saint-Petersburg's Main Street

St Pete's "Moscow Station"

Gates to the Summer Palace

Front courtyard of Summer Palace - Catherine's Palace

Front facace - Nazi's burned this palace to the ground!

Shoe covers required to walk on the Palace parquet

Fabled "Rossi Street" home to the Vaganova Academy

Looking down the one-block Rossi Street

Entryway to the Vaganova Academy - Ballet epicenter

WWII "Hero City" monument in St. Pete

An escalator in St Pete subway system

Metro system is very efficient!

Inside "Moscow Station"

Just off the night train from St. Petersburg...6:AM Moscow

Inside Leningrad Station upon arriving in Moscow

Headed downtown in Moscow...

Red square with history museum and kremlin in b/g

the Kremlin

Pretty soggy at Saint Basil's cathedral

The famous Lenin Mausoleum with Kremlin in b/g

A typical, ornate Moscow Metro Station

Lisa on a metro escalator...temporarily separated...

...kept her cool though.

Inside the famous G.U.M. (stands for Main Dept. Store)

With a Cossack reenactor at Russian History Museum

KFC in St Petersburg...McDonalds in Moscow

Russia's White House - where Parliament meets

From the U.S. Embassy compound at night...note US flag