Found a baby bear

Held it... carefully.


He makes little baby-bear grunts.

Spring in Saint-Petersburg

Ah spring... when thousands of middle-aged Russian women shed their fur coats, throw out their tanning spray, stumble into their thongs, and trek out to the Peter and Paul Fortress to sunbathe on the "beach".















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The weather here is getting nicer and nicer, so I went to Saint Isaac's recently. The bad part about climbing onto the cupola of Saint Isaac's Cathedral is you don't get a very good view of Saint Isaac's Cathedral.

The good part is you get a great view of everything else, like the Menshikov palace.


































I can see my school from here!















The 9th Wave, so the mariners say, is the most dangerous.















Thanks to Bimini for the photos, and for the cool video at the bottom of this post.

When I found myself

Sitting in the cafe of the Kunstkammer
Sharing a couple pieces of awful plastic pie
With an Aussie drama major (the normal-est person I could find) —
A boom box blasting Ghost Busters nearby,
I realized Saint-Petersburg is a weird place.

I ain't afraid a'no ghost!

Natalya Pushkina

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