Remember what I said about the weather being sunny? Yeah, it rained half the time as well. For about 3 days, weather was pretty eratic. And when it rains and it's windy, it gets really cold!!!
Obviously, the reason we could go St. Petersburg was to sing! I believe this was our competition day. This picture shows 5 out of 7 sopranos. Yup, I'm a soprano! Singing high notes can be really difficult, but if you really train and be disciplined about it, high notes can be sung very well. I did not start out as a good choral singer but I eventually climbed my own mountains. :D Anyway, we achieved 2 silvers.
The above and next two pictures are from our day trip to the Summer Palace called Peterhof. Peterhof has 155 fountains! It's beautiful and I coulde just imagine Russian princesses and princes walking along the fountains and gardens everyday.
At the back of Peterhof is the Baltic Sea. So yeah, the vast waters behind me is the Baltic Sea. Imagine my thrill when I saw such a beautiful sight. Apparently, durin the Russian Revolution, many nobles escaped by walking on the frozen Baltic Sea to Finland.
