Bolshoy

So over the past couple of days we did some interesting stuff. We went to an art museum. Actually it's a very interesting story behind the museum. There's a religious sect here called "the old believers" Basically they opposed certain church reforms and embraced old Russian ways. Because of this anything of antiquity became of importance and one of these such people collected Russian art and now it's the museum. It was interesting, some very nice paintings. We also went to the Bolshoy theatre to watch swan lake. I would say it was interesting, but ballet is not my cup of tea. BTW tea is a must here. Everyone drinks tea, I'm still trying to like it. But the performers were excellent. People clapped for them in rhythm though. It was a little odd. We went an saw the inside of the Kremlin. Russia has a massive history of Religious affiliation, that I think most people don't really know about, because of the atheism of the soviet era. But we went into like 3 different churches inside the Kremlin. The churches here are amazingly beautiful. Almost everything is in gold leaf, and they have wooden painted "Icons" that are thought to have healing powers. During church everyone stands. There are no chairs. They sing in harmonics with no instruments. They do litanies as well and then do a message. It's very interesting. I liked the service I went to.
Tommorrow I should be meeting with a couple friends that happen to be here, that should prove interesting