We finally have WiFi up and working – it took three visits from various technicians, but they got it working, hurray. Right now, I am listening to our San Francisco public radio station on the web. Nice to hear what's going on back in California. We miss the morning newspaper, but our view is so intriguing that we went for walk to the cosmonaut monument where we encountered the huge statues of all the famous cosmonauts and even recognized a few ones through our halting Cyrillic.
With the help of our babysitter Marina, I went to buy proper snowboots for Sasha, who is doing a lot of complaining about walking too far. I think she misses the California car lifestyle. Marina took us to a clothing and food hall near VDNk, the old Soviet-style monument, complete with heroic comrades holding their sheeves (sp?) of wheat. What beautiful, fresh foods. So different than the dreary local stores I've been shopping in. Piles of homemade sausages, gorgeous cheeses, barrels of pickeled vegies including carrots, onions, garlic. Sasha got to try various cheese until she found one she liked – no mozzarela at this cheese shop.
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