I just went to the Hermitage museum this morning. Eh, look it up. Nothing I can say will do it justice. It is huge, grand, amazing... did I mention it is huge?
I went with S and her mother (my host family), and her mother has connections at the Hermitage, so she was very annoyed when we couldn't get in through a special entrance. This was mostly because she didn't want to wait in the enourmous line for tickets. So instead, she walked right up to the ticket office (cutting in front of a half-hour wait), and emerged with tickets within about a minute. Then she pushed us through security (no coats allowed, you have to check them) to go to a special place for checking coats with no line. This woman was unstoppable.
I also got my first real taste of Petersburg weather. It was cloudy all morning, and it was sleeting when S and I got out of the Hermitage. Apparently this is normal.
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