White Nights in St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg is a very interesting city! When we arrived this morning, it was freezing cold and we didn't have our jackets on. By afternoon, it was blazing hot. It's almost feels like spring in Utah!




This city is referred to as the Venice of the north because it is also built around a series of canals. There are bridges and boats everywhere.




And because it is so far north, there is a time in the summer when the sun never sets. This is called White Nights and there are all kinds of celebrations. It is about 10 days before the start of this festival, which means the sun really only sets for a couple hours a night. It is so bizarre! It is almost 10pm here and it is still completely light. I can't imagine the winters when the sun is only up for a few hours!


The buildings here are breathtaking - huge, beautiful and very ornate. The pictures can kind of show the scale of how big things are, but pictures just can't capture how overwhelming they truly are.




We walked around and saw most of the major landmarks today. Unlike Moscow, which we navigated via a million different metro stations, we navigated all of St. Petersburg on foot today.


We saw the outside of the gorgeous Winter Palace Hermitage Museum. Tomorrow morning we will go inside to view all of the art. We also saw the huge Church on the Spilled Blood and the even bigger St. Isaac's Cathedral.




There are also a ton of statues here - including the Bronze Horseman.

Now time for bed even though it is still light out, like midday.


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Location:наб. реки Мойки,St Petersburg,Russian Federation