Unpacking Your Life

Today we spent the day in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is the site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The interesting part about Sochi is it’s a sub tropical climate. It’s a beach resort town on the black sea. But they are hosting the Winter Olympics… Well the actual games will be held about 50 km away. The unofficial story we got was that Putin owns lots of property in this area and stands to make a killing from the infrastructure that has to be built. Who knows.

The tour we went on today was to Stalin’s summer home in Sochi and a brief view of the city. Overall it was a nice city; the unfortunate part is you have to buy things in rubles. They won’t take the euro or the dollar, so they had a cruise ship full of Americans who they couldn’t sell cheap trinkets to since they wouldn’t exchange the currency. Anyhow, just another problem for them to solve.
Our guide was good and unfortunately many people in our group where just flat our rude to our 20 something guide. She has some interesting assets about her, that I discussed with Brandi. Brandi said she has chicken breasts… my response was huh? I still don’t fully understand that one, so I guess it’s a girl thing. Stalin’s Summer Home is totally painted green and come to find out he was a bit paranoid, on and his wife now lives in Wisconsin with a last name of Peters. Who would have thunk it.

Tomorrow we are heading to the Ukraine. I told mom and dad I would ask the stupid American question if they wanted me to… “Where are all the mail over brides… I have scheduled a pickup”. Just kidding of course. Tomorrow I think we are going to Yalta to see where the Yalta accord etc was signed. So much history in this area. Our trip is slowing coming to an end. We had to change our hotel in the UK after I happened to find the reviews on it. We changed to a Marriott. I’ll fill you in on that one later.