Truly Russia. part one.

See the Volga? 

Wonderful. I am glad you do.

But, I do want to tell you of my truly Russian experience. 

well, we all know my lovely host, maggie.

she is all about making sure i am receiving russian experiences. and let me tell you:

she succeeded.

Conversation went as follows:

"Kylie! Do you want to go on a trip on the Volga?"

[brain thinking: well, i already went on a trip on the Volga, but Russian practice is always invited.]

"Sure! Can I bring Becky and Danielle?"

"Of course! It will be 26 dollars"

"Awesome."

A day before the ride....

"Maggie, what time do we leave?"

"I have no idea"

An hour before we leave...

"What time is our steamboat trip leaving?"

"I think in an hour."

 [brain thinking: uhhh, okay.(i know, deep thought)]

The time finally comes when we get into the car.

The time finally comes when we get out of the car.

after being lost for an hour. with the car scraping the ground. seriously making me nervous.

finally we park.

and bam. we see our steam boat.

with fat men. in speedos.

lovely.

but, we could put up with that. until we were halfway on the river. and maggie said,

"so girls. over there is where our camp is. we will return in the morning."

[brains thinking: actually, scratch that...] shifting eyes from the three of us.

you know that look like:

oh. my. lanta.

what are we going to do?

yeah. that was us.