Day 4 Back from Tyumen!

Friday 25th January 08

Bbbbbbrrrrrrrr, it's soooo cold! I just got back on the train from Tyumen. Yesterday was a day like no other!! I arrived at 11:00 yesterday and it was FREEZING!!. The temperature was -13 degrees Celsius!!but at least it was sunny! The hotel was 3 kilometers from the Train Station so i had to catch a bus to the hotel! I stayed at the Quality hotel and it was very good quality teehee! As soon as got to the hotel i put my bags in the room and went straight to the jacuzzi to have a nice long soak! At 4:30 i left for the theater to see the Ballet and let me tell it was Amazing! The main character was this beautiful dancer called Anastasya Ippoli. The ballet was about how a beautiful women has fallen in love with a merchant boy who is nowhere near her standard in society and she is forbidden to see him but in the end they ran away together and after the performance i was nearly in tears! i included a postcard of the theater i picked up as i left! I got back to the hotel at about 8:00 and went straight out to dinner. But on the way back, as i walked because it wasn't very far, it was so cold my teeth were chattering!! I went to this little place about a two minute walk away which was a traditional russian restaurant. For my dinner, as a starter, i had herring in sheepskin coat which is small pieces of the herring mixed with the boiled potato, beef, carrot and mayonnaise. for a main course i had Beef Stroganov which is pieces of beef prepared with cream sauce. For dessert i had Tvorog which is cottage, usually served with honey or berry jam and i had it with honey! By the time i had finished it was gone 12:00 so i sleepily walked back to the hotel and upstairs and crawled into bed! This morning i woke up at 10:15 and i was just like aaaaahhhhhh because breakfast finished at a quarter to 11:00 so i rushed real fast and bunged on any old clothes and rushed downstairs. For breakfast i had Drachona which is a round cake made from eggs and some blinies which are mini pancakes and i had some orange juice too. After breakfast i went to the monastery and it was incredible. I had a tour of it and saw all the ins and outs. It's so interesting. After the tour i went back to the hotel grabbed my bags and headed for the train. It was still very cold when i got back on the train it was about -11 degrees Celsius. I caught the train at 3:45 and i am back on track towards Vladivostok! Going now speak more tomorrow!!

x tiffy x