День победы, or Victory Day, which commemorates Russia's "winning" WWII, is to some the biggest holiday of the year. I was particularly excited for it because it sounded exactly like 4th of July: parades all day, live music, and fireworks at night. The first parade started at 10 am on Nevsky. We had planned to go, but, what with buying beer and such, didn't actually make it out of the dorm until noon. No matter - someone who went said that it was kind of boring and you couldn't actually see anything.
Instead we went to Peter and Paul fortress and spent the day there, with the intent to head to Nevsky at 4 for the Veterans' Parade and then walk around until fireworks. We got distracted by Twister and missed the Veterans' parade. Luckily, Peter and Paul had some sights of its own:
Russians taking pictures of each other
men in thongs
and medieval warriors!
Then we got caught in a rainstorm and went home to dry off/warm up and missed the fireworks.
Russians taking pictures of each other
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