So good to be home!

Well, so a week or more after we are home, I finally have time/the energy to post about our trip again!
We had such a wonderful time, and we both learned so much to bring back to our classroom. 

We are truly blessed to have had such a wonderful experience!

Moscow was tough for both of us because we are such outgoing, smiley people, and it was hard to not have those kinds of feelings while in Moscow.  The opera we saw in Moscow was wonderful, and the theatre was of course gorgeous. But Moscow just isn't my kind of place.  It is definately somewhere that you reflect on the history and politics of the country of Russia, and somewhere that you are thankful for your country and your life.  But none the less it was an experience I wouldn't trade for the world.

St. Petersburg was more our speed.  It was a city for culture. Every building we past (it seemed) was an old palace now used as some kind of museum. The people were very different from Moscow, everyone was smiling and seemed to be enjoying their day.  The museums were AMAZING, and the shows we saw will soooo benefit our students!

Overall, we brought back some great resources from both cities, and I can't wait to share them with my new students! And we are both very glad to have had the trip and experiences, but we are glad to be back home with our families...we missed them so.

Maybe someday we will take our families to Russia to share those wonderful experiences.