Gorky Park

Last Tuesday, Randy mentioned he wanted to go to Gorky Park. It was a beautiful night so I thought why not.

We packed a picnic dinner, sandwiches for us and some banana and carrots for Adam. We thought we’ll go have dinner, take a quick walk around and come home.

Gorky Park is mentioned in the guidebook as a passing thought, given no stars and seemed like nothing special. We arrived and looked for a quite spot on the lawn to have dinner.

Badminton watching

After a yummy dinner and some Badminton watching (some of us were riveted) we started to walk around and were amazed.

This Park has EVERYTHING! Whoever planned this park was a genius. This park was made for people to enjoy and it was so nice to see so many people taking advantage on a beautiful summer evening. We ended up walking around for hours taking everything in.

This park has a million different seats, all of them interesting and different. Really a million different types people-

There were ramps!

There was a vending machine with duck food.

Ping Pong Tables

Bicycles to rent

(This was art- there were real bicycles to rent)

Bocce Ball

Paddle Boats

Bicycle Ramps

Skateboarding Ramps (With Christmas lights 🙂

Beach Volleyball, with REAL SAND!

Hookahs to rent

There was even this

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Synchronized dancing?

Gorky Park Ice-cream (which was delicious- we had to try it so we could let you know of course)

Art work all over

There was even this-

and this 🙂

This was a real Buran space shuttle, designed for flight but scrapped due to lack of funding. Adam will one day be begging us to go back.

There was even a fountain that performed to music. I’m not kidding when I say this park had everything. If we lived in Moscow, we decided hands down we would want to live as close to this park as possible.