Marsha (Aunt Rebecca's friend) and me at the food court near metro station Kurskaya.
Шаурма!! (That's Shaurma for you non-cyrillic readers, the 60 ruble Russian wrap/burrito things you can get at any metro station that are somewhat sketchy and amazingly delicious.)
Nick demonstrates the devised method of transporting the "pinata."
CHIPS AND SALSA AND GUACAMOLE!!! In Russia!! I ate a lot... :)
Jeff in the kitchen, attacking the turkey-that-was-supposed-to-be-chicken.
More samplings of delicious foodstuffs...yum!
Milling about in the main room of the apartment a few minutes before all the food came out.
Group shot! (Sorry it's blurry...on "party mode" if you don't have an extremely steady hand, it comes out blurry, and since I'm actually in this photo, I had little control over how steady the photographer's hand was.)
Gathered outside to witness the pinata.
Jack takes a swing!
Alex succeeds in knocking the cardboard/newspaper/shiny paper contraption off of the main part of the pinata (a 5L water jug filled with candy).
David takes a turn whacking the remains with a stick, because come on, what else do you do with a candy-filled plastic jug hanging from a tree by an ethernet cable?
Back inside - the aftermath.
Fast forward to today: Novodeivichy Convent (Cloister). A view from inside the walls. There are a ton of graves there, and apparently there's also a cemetary outside the walls but we didn't even get to it.
Another sight inside the cloister walls, slightly less attractive and complete with a...cannon.
This girl was so quintessentially Russian I just had to take a picture. I think she was trying to play with a squirrel that had gone up a hole in the tree...reminiscent of "To Kill A Mockingbird" for some reason.
Inside a museum looking at various icons and other church-y things (most of which contained a lot of gold).
View from a window of the museum.
Another museum - this room had cannons and guns and various pointy metal objects. It struck me as odd that a convent (theoretically a place of God?) had so many weapons and combat-related things.
Quite possibly my favorite picture yet. :) (This is Irina, our on-site coordinator, and I basically handed her this sign and took her picture, then the others with us thought it was hilarious and had her pose so they could all get pictures too.)
4 comments:
Meredith
I think the white sauce I'm seeing is *garlic sauce* and it is amazing stuff.
a. pam
Next time you have a pinata, the clear answer of "what else do we do" is hang it from a rope tied between two lamp posts and run a truck at it. =] The truck is probably more sturdy than the stick, in any case...
Karen
What is that a pinata OF?
Because it possibly the sketchiest-looking pinata I've ever seen.
David
David - you'd have to ask Jessica, she's the one who made it, but I don't think it was "of" anything besides a cardboard box and some shiny paper. It may have had eyes, though, I didn't examine it too closely...
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