Boat tour, two churches, and the ballet.

I've gotten in a bad habit of setting out to write an entry and then getting sidetracked by something else on the internet, and then by the time I get back to actually writing, I'm tired and just want to go to bed. So I'll just give a very brief overview of today with some pictures and then I'm off.

We rushed off this morning to a canal boat tour which was pretty cool. We got to see the bajillion palaces of St. Petersburg from the water this time -- very cool.

Super pretty Soviet architecture.....

Another view from the boat

From there, we walked down Nevsky Prospect which is St. Petersburg's major street. We stopped in the church where all of the Romanovs got married which was pretty over the top. After that, we walked to St. Isaac's Cathedral which is closer to the Hermitage -- it has the 4th largest church dome after St. Peter's in Rome, the Duomo in Florence, and St. Paul's in London -- all of which I have actually been to. 

Walking down Nevsky Prospect

Church

Inside St. Issac's

Selfie in St. Issac's.......couldn't resist posting this gem

After that, we decided to give the St. Petersburg metro system a tried -- we were successful and saw some pretty cool stations! And rode some of the longest escalators ever....

View up the escalator

Inside one of the stations

Tonight we had an early dinner at a restaurant called Sadko (I think) -- I was pleasantly surprised about how delicious it was - more about the meal tomorrow. Probably the highlight of the day was going to the ballet at the Mariinsky Theater tonight. We saw La Bayadere which was absolutely beautiful. Annoying people taking pictures all around us, but oh well. Such is life. The theater was pretty incredible too!! 

Mariinsky Theater 

And now I'm about to fall asleep -- so more tomorrow as we are off to Moscow. A demain!