After the Cucumber Festival Natalya (that’s what the tour guide told us to call her, the Führer title was optional) had some more history to shove down our throats share with us. I can’t complain about it too much though, I got some fantastic photos.

We visited the Saviour Monastery of St. Euthymius in Suzdal. On our way there we passed by the cathedral of the Nativity. If you hadn’t noticed, they have a lot of churches in Suzdal.

We continued our walk to the monastery, though if I had wanted to I could have had this guy or one of his friends give me a ride.

Can you guess what’s inside of the monastery walls? If you said church, you get a gold star! It’s the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, and I think it, and the 1st one I posted today, tie as my 2nd favorite (my 1st is St. Basils).

It does get bonus points for being the first church I was allowed to take photos in.

There was a great garden too – flowers and herbs and all sorts of pretty things.

And before we left I grabbed a photo of this wall surrounding the monastery. It really is my photo, and I took it the same day, I don’t know why the sky isn’t as blue as the first two photos though. Crazy Russian weather.

So now I am all caught up with Saturday’s adventures. Sunday was shopping at two different markets and then last night we took a boat ride down the Moscow River. Don’t worry, I took pictures both days and I’ve still got plenty of Russia left to share with you before I come home on Saturday.