Before St. Petersburg - opera and shuffleboard

It's time that I finally update my blog. We got delayed on our flight back from Cairo, so I have a little more time in between papers to update.

At Liga Pap after the opera

After coming back from Istanbul, we had a week in Moscow before leaving again for St. Petersburg. The highlight of the week was when Elliot and I went to see MacBeth at the Bolshoi. We hadn't made specific plans for dinner so we ended up running around in our opera clothes looking for a decent place to eat. After wandering for a while, we found a sushi restaurant that looked pretty good. The sushi there was as good as the sushi at home. I'm no sushi expert, but it was pretty good. When we got to the opera, we were surprised by how good our seats were. We were in the sixth row from the front, right in the middle. It was kind of difficult to figure out exactly what was going on, even though both of us knew the story. At intermission, we went to a snack area that was much nicer than the one I had gone to when we saw the ballet a couple weeks before. Everyone around us could speak at least three languages (mostly Russian, English, and French) and were switching between them with very little difficulty. I'd like to be as good as that someday. I had some really yummy strawberries and cream and champagne, followed by a juice box to add some extra classiness. Haha. After the opera, we went to Liga Pap, where we were definitely overdressed but had a good time.

Oh, also I have fallen in love with shuffleboard. My second favorite part of the week was playing shuffleboard back at the embassy. I am not the best at it, but it is so much fun! I'm getting better and last time, Erin and I even won!