Breakfast at the hotel buffet is fantastic compared to Murom's breakfasts, but I can see that the buffet would start to get old if we stayed a long time. We left at 10:00 for Peterhof, Peter the Great's palace 28 kilometers outside the city. Peterhof is impressive for its many fountains, over 150 of them. The palace overlooks the Gulf of Finland and has a 'canal' built right up to the palace lined with fountains. The fountains are propelled not by electrical pumps - no electricity in Peter's time - but by gravity. There must have been some smart engineers on the scene to make all of these fountains work without modern day pumps. They are beautiful!
We came back to the city and toured the Russian Museum - everything Russian! We had a fanatastic tour guide that shared the stories behind many of the paintings.
Dinner at the hotel with the same buffet, different night! Most of our group attended the ballet. I chose not to spend the money as I had been to the small Bolshoi in Moscow three years ago. I attempted the Internet Cafe again, but blogger still refused to post my blogs! So being the party animal that I am, I got myself some Nestea, went back to the hotel and watched the only channel in English, the BBC!
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