Open Letter from Moscow!

Hi–Cynthia here, Connie’s trusty Virtual Assistant.  Connie and her husband are traveling right now so I’m posting this for her.  I’m sure you’ll be hearing much more about it when she returns. In the meantime, here’s part of her amazing adventure.

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Wow!
What an amazing time we’ve had here in Moscow. Very energy intense at first, and
are enjoying it more here all the time. We are pros with the Metro. Amazing
fact–in a given day, 9 million people use the Metro–more than London and New
York combined!! It’s also a very classy Metro, we took some photos today.

We visited the Kremlin yesterday–lots of golden onion domes, marching soldiers
and soldiers on horseback. Then we walked to infamous Red Square and saw St.
Basil’s Cathedral with its ornate, multi-colored dome. We also saw lots of
brides and bridegrooms celebrating and getting their photos taken in Red Square
and St. Basil’s. They all looked so happy.

Moscow is a very European city, much more than we expected. We have seen the
most amazing array of very high fashion, trendy shoes I have ever seen and
young women actually wearing them. I haven’t seen anything like them in the
States.

Today we visited Lenin’s Mausoleum and saw the preserved Lenin himself. He
looked so life-like I thought he might sit up and talk at any moment. The
technology has recently become commercialized, and you too can be
preserved for a mere $1 million.

Tomorrow we head to Suzdal, a village of 12,000 about 4 hours by train and bus
outside of Moscow. It will be a relaxing change of pace.