Saturday, July 21: Kremlin Tour/Red Square

We toured the Kremlin with its Cathedrals, Walls, Bell Tower, Tsarbell, Tsargun (largest cannon), Government buildings, and Towers. Troops marched in the kremlin as a band played. I saw a soldier with a falcon on his leather-bound hand that was used to keep the pigeons away. We toured through the Kremlin Museum. Peter's boots, Catherine's dresses. Crowns of the tsars and fancy carriages of the tsars. Faberge eggs and gold and silver and pearls. I took pictures in here three years ago. Now it is forbidden to take any pictures at all. A small group of us went to Red Square, Gym (pronounced goom), the fancy mall next to Red Square, and took pictures of St. Basil's Cathedral and Lenin's tomb. We walked to an Italian restaurant set up as a cafe on a traffic-less street near Red Square. I had what was the closest thing to a pepperoni pizza I could find on the menu - not bad. But, $3.50 for a small 10 ounce bottle of Coke Light!! We metroed to our hotel for the evening.