Just arrived in St Petersburg last night. We are so excited to be in such an amazing historical city. We are also in the middle of reading the 900 days about the seige of Leningrad during WWII- I am at the part of the book where they start having to eat human sausages. This made it quite difficult to enjoy my breakfast this am. St P an absolutely gorgeous city- Maddox is loving it and especially appreciates the ladies here- all of them are wearing very short skirts or dresses, even in the rain. Our hotel provided us with a guidebook that had local advertisements for resturants and Russian models. Since the people here are not as outwardly friendly as the Spainards or Italians and Maddox is happiest when he can flirt with strangers, we are thinking of ordering a model to accompany us around- just someone Maddox can flirt with while we tour around. Today our friend Ksusha's friend Olga is picking us up to take us to a flash mob, a soviet cafe, the modern art museum and a boat tour. Should be very interesting! Brett is reading up on beach volleyball which we will be seeing at the Olympics- apparently "A medal is a distant dream for Team Great Britain!" No, really???? Where do they practice? The UK is not really known for their beaches or their beach bodies for that matter. We are looking forward to see the spray tanned bodies of the British team- should be a hoot!!!! US and Brazil will be front runners.