Has it really almost been 4 months since I went to Russia?!? Guess, it’s about time that I posted something about it, huh? :)

Ryan had his last international Duke residency in St Petersburg, so how could I NOT tag along?!?

First night, after a long flight (actually 3 flights) in, it was dinner time! As always, I was excited to try out the food. We ordered Russian food that I was familiar with, but how exciting to be able to actually order it and then eat it IN Russia. No offense, Russia, but my family's dumplings and my grandfathers borscht is better ;-)

Next up, a whole lotta sightseeing! We happened to be in St Petersburg during the White Nights - those 80 or so evenings, running from May to the end of July, when the city emerges from long months of cold and darkness and celebrates the brief return of nearly round-the-clock daylight.

We spent the next couple of days checking out what I would think was a lot of, if not most of, the St Petersburg must sees before heading down to Moscow.

Here are some St Petersburg highlights:

The great thing about the White Nights is the almost around the clock sunlight. We went to a bar to catch the sunset at MIDNIGHT. Pretty cool seeing the sun and the moon out until almost 1am.