More Pictures!

These photographs are a few weeks old, but that doesn't mean that I don't love them. Most are from the cemetery we were to visit for an assignment for Beloit, and some of them are blurry night photographs from the night of the celebration of Moscow's birthday. That was a seriously cool night, as some main streets were blocked off to host a variety of performers that included rappers and dub-step artists (dub-step is, according to Wikipedia and for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, a "genre of electronic dance music" and is incredibly fun to dance to) and concluded with fireworks over Red Square. An absolutely amazing night, and almost none of it was caught on camera due to my inability to take pictures in the dark. I'll post some of the better ones, however "better" in this case is still not necessarily "good."

One of many small trails in the Moscow
cemetery we visited. It was gorgeous.

The graves at this cemetery are absolutely
 spectacular and beautiful.

The cremated remains of some of the people
 buried here are placed within brick walls.

A newer wall with built-in holes.

The portion of the cemetery with newer graves
 that were waiting for their headstones were
covered in flowers and photos.

One of the few pictures from Moscow's birthday
that aren't completely blurry. Still pretty bad, though.

I'm not sure if you can see it, but there were at
 least 10,000 people in downtown Moscow that night.
It was insane.

Philipp and I at a bar/restaurant after the festivities

Party favors.

I promise to post another blog either today or tomorrow, and this one will be only text and no pictures and I promise that it won't all be about parties and drinking, either. I PROMISE!