My Highly Triumphant Return to Blogging

After a long, anticipated wait, he's back!

Greetings once again from Russia. Sorry that I have not update my blog in a couple of days...okay like tenish days. I have just been super busy and haven't had much free time. But now I have some time to share with you some more of my adventures here. Over the past week or so, nothing to exciting has happened. It has basically just been life as normal here. However, below I have some new pictures that I thought you all would like to see.

To start with, on the 28th of April I went to my first Футболный Матч (Soccer Game) while in Russia. Let me tell you, it was awesome/crazy/ridiculous. I went with Graham, Steve, Ruslan and Ruslan's friend Dima to watch my favorite Russian team ЦСКА (Remember? ...from an earlier post) play Зенит (Zenit; a team from St. Petersburg). Basically the two teams are bitter rivals and the fans at the game basically made Ohio State fans look tame...and that's saying something. Unfortunately, ЦСКА got beat 2-0...but it was still a fun game to watch and I hope to go to another one before I leave.

Also, below are a few pictures from our last excursion to the Vasnetsov House-Museum. Виктор Васнецов (Viktor Vasnetsov) is a famous Russian painter who lived in Moscow. His home was turned into a museum, and it's right in the middle of Moscow. It was cool cause it was a house from the 1800s right in a huge city like Moscow.

Here are the pics...ENJOY!

At the ЦСКА game. It was a cold, rainy night and even tho ЦСКА got beat it was still a ton of fun.

Start of the second half.

Our seats we in the 8th row and cost only 800 Rubles (appx $27).

Зенит fans starting a fire after Зенит scored their second goal. Totally nuts!

A nice view across Red Square of St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin.

Stands set up in preparation for the May 9th holiday celebration. День Победы (Victory Day) is May 9th and celebrates Russia victory of World War II. H-U-G-E holiday in Russia. HUGE!

View down a crazy Moscow street towards an even crazier street with a highway overpass.

Just a pretty church that we found along our walks.

"House Museum of Viktor Vasnetsov". Sign of the museum we visited.

The house. It was quite small but still very interesting.

After our tour of the Vasnetsov house, we were served tea and other snacks in another building. Fun fact: Russians love, I mean absolutely love to drink tea.

...and the best for last! This here is my favorite car in all of Russia. The company is Lada and they make this tiny Russian car that is just plain awesome!

Well, that's all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed and hopefully I'll have some more adventures to tell you about in the coming days. Пока!

PS: Keep the comments up, I love reading them!