Russia Day

Today was a pretty relaxing day I must say. Hanging out at the park with Xanja for about 3 hours, then the Russian fun started. I went to the banya with my friend Igor. It was awesome. A bit different than the one in St. Petersburg but it was still great. I think I was the only non-Russian speaking person and that also means the only non-Russian. My minimal russian came in handy but I'm glad Igor was there to do all the talking. We spent about 3 hours there, hanging out and drinking tea. Then it was off to a Russian grocery store. I didn't get a whole lot but some cranberry juice, bread, butter and chocolate. So far I've had everything but the chocolate and it's been good. The real amazing thing is how relaxing it was, which means I'll have to do this again. The only bad part was the Russian women didn't show up until we were leaving, oh well it doesn't really matter anyway.