до свидания Россия

I apologize for the lack of posts this week - it's been a busy week with preparing for our close meeting and trip home. We have just finished our close meeting and are leaving the office - this 4 kilometer walk home will be our last. The trip has been great and the experience has totally blown my mind. I look forward to seeing everyone next week!

здесь мы приходим Коннектикут!

Picture with the monkey...

...it'll cost you. This woman was charging people to take a picture with the monkey so I waited until she looked the other way to snap a picture of this "attraction". Only in Russia...

Bread

Over the weekend we took a stroll down to Red Square to check out the open air market. I noticed the breads below:

PIGS:

FISH:MISC:

Russian Goldfish

A few members of the team walked to the local grocery store over the weekend to view the store presence of the Russian product. During their stay, they saw and purcahsed the product in the

"Grinder" Flat

Bread please...

Russian lesson of the day - a restaurant is a pectopah

If you go out to a restaurant they will not bring bread or water to your table without you asking. If asked they do not bring a loaf or a few slices rather they bring an assortment of mini-loaves (see picture below). The bread in the picture is Sesame, Asiago cheese, Wheat and a 4th which I was unable to decifer. We have found the bread out here is much more dense and less moist than the bread we are used to.