After training we took the boys on the Metro to Red Square. We didn't go into anything since we have a tour planned at the end of our trip. Regardless it was an amazing experience. For starters to walk across Red Square was fairly surreal for someone who came of age during the Cold War. Second, St. Basil's cathedral was amazing and looked like something out of Disneyland.

The kids were told to not to buy anything yet since they'd have more time later and in less expensive locations. The baubles of Red Square proved to be too difficult to resist apparently as several fur hats, boxes, Soviet era souvenirs found their way with us on the train trip home.

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