Today we went on an excursion with members of local tourism agencies to Russian National Park Meshera (no website!). They had invited us along because they had extra space in their group and thought the Americans might enjoy it. Unfortunately, the excursion was designed for tourism professionals, and instead of showing us the park, they showed us the park's visitors' center, some hotels, a closed giftshop, and two museums. This wasn't entirely interesting. However, one of the museums was interesting. It was a replica of an old, traditional Russian homestead, where they also fed us traditional fish soup, pirogi, and vodka, and that also had a sad-looking bear in a cage. I would like to go back and actually see the park. It apparently has a lot of swampland, forests, fields, rivers, and the like... although in the winter, these things all look pretty similar under a blanket of snow. And from the window of your tour bus.
Despite how it looks, it was actually "warm" today.
By which I mean -10C or something.
Random view in the town of Gus Khrustalny.I thought it was neat.
M takes off.
B and Y play in the playground.
Maria Petrovna, the cute-but-sad bear.She was raised in a circus, so she can't be released into the wild.
2 comments:
poor sad bear
you know, he doesn't normally look anything like alex, but in this picture, he totally does. i think a lot of it's the glasses. he doesn't usually wear them...
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