Dreaming in Sankt-Peterburg

large. neon. signs. everywhere. or as Moshe commented, “it feels like Detroit.” at any rate, we finally made it after some absurd amount of traveling. i think the commute was about 20h. Now, that's not quite as bad as my commute was down in DC last year, but it's getting close.

once we got through customs and baggage (it took us like 4 minutes to all of this as opposed to the two hours we spent in philly merely acquiring the tickets at check-in, suprise suprise), we had a guy waiting for us with moshe's name on a sign. to preface my next comment, i must ask "have you ever seen rocky 4?" home boy was rolling in a dirty black benz with donuts for tires. at that moment, i felt extremely compelled to throw on fur and then run to the top of a mountain. to my dismay, there is no snow on the ground and the area surrounding Leningrad is flat. this is not totally suprising as it borders the baltic sea. fun trivia fact for the day: st. petersburg is the most northern city in the world that has more than 1 million residents. translation: it's cold. the high is freezing. i could see my breath while i was walking through the jetway from the plane! luckily, i was able to acquire some under armour last week, so i'm good to go - crunchwrap style.

this city is huge. it's the third largest in Europe and it doesn't hide it. it was a 45 min ride from the airport on the city limits to our hotel near the center.......and we were going like 80kph (50mph for you US standard dogs). it's pretty impressive. there is a lot of sweet, old architecture. i'm excited to see it in the daylight tomorrow. for now, i'll have to be content with the fantastic view of St. Issac's Catheradal which consumes the entirety of my window.

by the way, to continue a thread from the previous post, russian girls are hotter than american girls too. now, please keep in mind that everytime i bad mouth american girls, i am excluding my friends. i would not be friends with them if they weren't hot.......

......maybe i'm a touch shallow. **shrugs** eh, whateve. but, i might be cutting america short. i'm basing my perception of american girls almost exclusively on the northeast. meanwhile, j keeps telling me the hotties are in miami. to counter though, i feel like every girl that is hot is also fake and a DB, to say the least. meanwhile, russian girls seem to have a very pleasant air about them. they are able to show their awesome features without looking like a total slut.

i'm pretty sure there was something else that i wanted to talk about, but i'm going to say nuts to that. i have to be up in 6h (0645 GMT+03 -> 1045 EST), and with the exception of dosing off for about an hour during the flight from frankfurt to leningrad (i'm tried to fight it, but i failed....), i have been up since yesterday morning which was about 30h ago.

tomorrow, i'll have some sweet touristy stuff to share i'm sure. and if i ever get around to reading the manual for my phone, i'll post some of the pics that i've been taking with it.

and happy thanksgiving everyone!

STATISTICS!

time:
23.11.2007
St. Petersburg - 0035 GMT+03
Frankfurt - 2235 GMT+01
Philadelphia - 1635 GMT-05

start time - 0230 GMT-05 21.11.2007
time elapsed - 23h 5m

charge left on my laptop - (1000000%) ((moshe lent me a socket adapter))
# of hours spent playing ds - 10h
# of hot girls i've seen - approx 21

Current Song:
"take on me" - a-ha
the driver was rocking it on the way to the hotel.

points - the world:
forcing me to use the elevator to go to my third floor room = 1

points - ryan:
discovering that there are attractive women in the world = 1

score:
the world - 3
ryan - 1