(Backup) Inside the Kremlin and a wedding invitation

Today we took a drive around downtown Moscow.  The buildings are quite beautiful. Love the architecture and the design of the buildings. Above is church.  We saw many like it.  They are really beautiful

Below we are in the GUM. This is a Hugh shopping mall buildt during the 18th. Fancy and expensive for the most part.  Prada, etc. 

 

Below we are across the river from the Kremlin. Kremlin means fortress.  We went inside the Kremlin and visited the Armory which is a museum of Russian treasures.  The exhibits were amazing.  Most everything from the 18th and 19th centuries.  The gowns were beautiful and heavy.  Thousands of fresh water pearls and diamonds.  We couldn't take pictures inside the museum.  Fancy carriages, chain maile suits 

Fabrege eggs.

 

We got out of the museum just in time to see a military parade.  Lots of goose stepping. 

 

Downtown Moscow   

 

Our new friend Bindi from New Delhi.  We visited with her at breakfast.  At the start of the conversation, she asked us if we voted for Trump. The answer was important to her.  If we had answered wrong, the friendship would have not taken off.  We will visit her when we go to India.

 

 Being a tourist is very hard work.

 

When we got back to the hotel, as we opened our window which faces the courtyard, we noticed the area was being set up for. Wedding.  We watched the whole thing from our window.  Learned that it was a traditional Russian wedding.  All guests brought a bouquet of flowers for the bride and an envelope with money for the groom.  

 

 

 

For dinner we went to a grocery deli in the next block.  There we met a Ukrainian woman who works for delta airlines and lives in New York.  She helped us pick up some Russian deli for for our supper.  When we returned to the hotel we talked to some of the hotel workers in the lobby.  They brought us up a microwave, bottle opened, plates and silver.  We dined in and it was good.

 

 

 

Good night!