After picking up our
camera from the restaurant we headed to the Winter Palace/Hermitage
Museum. Thankfully we had brought our
tickets in advance, the first Thursday of every month is free. The line was several hours long, our tickets
meant we could completely skip the cue.
The downside was, if we had known we would have gone the day before
because the museum was so busy and crowded.
It is debated whether the
Louvre or the Hermitage Museum is the biggest in the world. We have now been to both, so either way we’ve
gone to the biggest museums. It is said
that if you look at each item in the museum for 1 minute it would take 5 years
to look at everything.
The museum had some
artifacts that we have not seen before which was great, the best things we were
not allowed to take photos of. There was
a whole display of royal clothing, the detail, design and effort that went into
the clothing was tremendous (Kristen would of loved it). Each piece of clothing also had a description
of who wore it and when. There was also
tableware that was made of brass, silver and gold. The pieces were huge and had the most
intricate detail, it makes what we use now look so simple and basic. It also had a large collection of armour,
once again the detail and design was outstanding. Leo especially likes looking at the armour
and liked the fact that he found a child-sized suit of armour that would of
fitted him.
Visiting a museum takes a
whole day or longer. For us it was a
relatively quick visit as we had to leave by 2pm so we could get back to the
hostel and pick up our things; to catch the ferry bus back to the ship. I didn’t include many photos of the museum online,
there were just far too many.
Once again we enjoyed
another ship ride home. There was a
little blow up pool on one of the decks that Corban and Leo made use of. We had to laugh when groups of Asian tourist would
stop to take their photos. The little
kids enjoyed another kids show in ‘Russian’ and we watched another show, this
time there was lots of traditional Russian dancing.
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