Thursday, January 31, 2008

I haven't put a lot of pictures on here and I feel like a slacker. I have posted all my pictures on my Facebook page, but I understand that not everyone wants to have a Facebook page just to look at my pictures. So here are a few more pictures from my trip.

This is the grocery store next to our hotel.


This is a picture of the building that our new office is in.


since I can't bring back a real gun I will have to settle for this lighter.


Here is a picture from Red Square. You have Lenin's tomb on the right and behind that is the Kremlin. In the distance is St. Basil's Cathedral.



Here is a statue of Lenin




This is the hotel that we are staying in. It is a very nice hotel.





Monday, January 28, 2008

Another McDonalds Moment.


Today we went to the office and waited till the equipment was delivered. We got things arranged in the server room. The server room is the only room in the entire office that is almost complete. There is still no power, so we had the electrician bring in some temporary power. The rest of the office is still under construction. The building is nice, so it should be a good place for business.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

I was just looking on KSL and they just announced that President Gordon B. Hinckley passed away. I'm interested to see the reaction of people.
Today I wanted to go check out a building that was done in the Stalanist style. This is the Hotel Leningradskaya. There are several buildings around Moscow that are built in this style.


This afternoon Chris and I went with Natalia from our Moscow office to Red Square. We went on the Metro. When we got close to Red Square I took a little video. In the video you can see another building that is done in the same style as the hotel above.




Saturday, January 26, 2008

So this morning after we got checked into our hotel we went over to McDonalds to get lunch. They didn't take credit cards so we went to the bank to change our money. So I hand the lady at the bank my money and she starts asking me questions and since I don't speak Russian I had no idea what she was asking. I felt pretty stupid, but luckily the lady next to her understood that I wanted to change my money. The lady that was helping me was very disgusted that I didn't speak Russian. I wish I did, I was embarrassed. So we went to McDonalds to eat lunch and I a little bit easier time ordering food, but there was still a language barrier. After lunch I went back to the hotel and took a nap. I ended up sleeping until about 8:00 at night. I woke up and went over to my travel buddy's (His name is Chris also) room to wake him up to go get some dinner. We went down to the hotel restaurant, but they wanted like $58 each for dinner. We went back to McDonalds. Here is a video inside McDonalds. We were eating in the upstairs dinning area. This place has been crowded both times we went there.

I'm here in Moscow and I just woke up from a long nap. I just posted some of my pictures here. I will be posting more of my pictures on my Facebook page.





Well, I'm in Moscow. It's cold and snowy here. The flight wasn't too bad. I will post pics and such as the week goes on.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Last Saturday we Celebrated Analise's 1st bithday. It was a lot of fun. Analise loved her cake as you can see in the pictures below. I can't believe it's already been one year since she was born.

I 'm heading out of the country again to Russia in a week. I will post pictures while I am there.