First Weekend in Yekaterinburg

This is our first full weekend here and we spent most of the weekend exploring the sights around the city! First thing first... it's COLD here ... and not just a little COLD but cold like January is in New York.... on Saturday we walked down to Cathedral of Blood .. this is where the czar and his family were killed and then they built a cathedral on the sight. We got to see a wedding party in front taking pictures! On our way back to the apartment we walked through a street fair .. kind of like a farmers market ...lots of produce,eggs and fish and I mean FISH ... like whole fish and the sellers had scales that they would weigh your products on!! There were also sweaters, scarves and a collection of winter items for sale (boots, hats, mittens) it was very cool!

Today,Sunday, we walked down to the Park Inn. We were looking for a toy store that another family had found when they were here in April/May but no luck! We did stop in to the Park Inn for lunch .. they have an english menu and the food is pretty good so for a taste of home we had burgers and fries! Our walk back to the apartment included a stop by the Greenwich .. this is the large supermarket down the street from our apartment ... seems like we are there every other day and today we stopped for some water (we buy this in bulk since we drink ALOT of water and you can't drink for the tap) we also got some chicken and lettuce!! You have to pay for the bags and I guess the checker didn't understand we wanted one bag so it was NO BAG FOR US so while Stephen carried the water I carried the lettuce and chickne!! Oh and it was snowing so it make the walk more fun!!!

Here are some pictures of our sights over the last few days!


This is our apartment building ... we are on the 3rd floor!








Cathedral of Blood

Our Sunday in the Snow!!





Last ... the market we go to daily ... it's in a mall!!!