I like to tell Fo and Adam, it’s the journey, not the destination, that makes it all worth it. That’s a tough sell at 7PM when a cranky, hungry, certain someone (hint: not naming names but its someone who is not on an all-liquid diet) has been lugging the stroller through the underground labyrinth of Moscow. So I tend to use other tactics.
“Where are we going?” “A park.”
That usually does the trick, especially if it’s a nice night. So we set out on our walk. A long walk, admittedly, but the views (aka “the journey”, keep up with me folks) made it all worth it. And they were awesome:
Christ the Savior Cathedral (Factoid: Stalin initially razed this area to build a swimming pool. This was built by a Moscow mayor not too long ago.)
Christ the Savior Cathedral (It’s really grown on me after seeing it a few times!)
And yes, I may have dilly-dallied over the pedestrian bridge to “Red Island” but it allowed us to catch a glimpse of this:
The Kremlin and Red Square
As we were heading off the bridge, we noticed a Muscovite skateboarding down a ramp on the bridge.
Now I bet you were expecting that the story would end with “the park” being not so great, especially with my leading with “the journey makes it all worth it” yada yada. But it was actually pretty amazing. When communism fell, Muscovites gleefully downed lots of Soviet statutes. They were generally just strewn about in random places. A few years ago, some artists gathered a bunch of them together in a garden.
It was Adam’s first foray into Soviet Socialist realist art:
(Yes, its a theme)
I was surprised to hear Adam say he wanted a moment alone with the old man Lenin himself. I said, Adam are you sure? He said, Yes I’m sure. I then glimpsed this out of the corner of my eye.
(Poignant, No?)
I guess Adam still hasn’t gotten over how Lenin exploited the true socialist principles of Marx.
–Randy
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He the cranky one probably had an upsetStomach from all the ice cream and milk. How was dinner? In the park with Stalin?
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Randy, I love the skateboarder picture. Really good!!!
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