Ok, so here we are at Old Arbat Street. It is a long pedestrian street that stretches about 1km , a perfect place to burn down all those calories from Chilli's (read : NYE at Mowscow (Part I))
The walkway was so peaceful and serene, all you can see are beautiful paintings everywhere and all you can hear is harmonious music that makes you feel like wanna jump into a bubble bath at that instant.
He played a song specially for us
Other street performers with their unique instruments
We were waiting for Armin to meet up, so we decided to just walk about and kill time that way
Dom Aktyora
Goofed around with a PINK ushanka - that I nearly fainted for
Still Armin wasn't here yet, and just after we were out of ideas on where to go - we found this...
It sent chills down to my spine, I came out from here feeling all nauseated
I swear I won't step inside that anymore!
Just by the time we came out, Armin arrived. Since I feel like throwing-up in any second, we straight away dashed to Cinnabon (ok fine, the throwing up part is just an excuse)
it was more because of the cinnamon rolls
Armin suggested one place for us to visit or better know as - МГУ or M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University. It is the top institution in Moscow and the main building is one of the Seven Sisters built during Stalin's era.
In front of M.V.Lomonosov's statue - a famous Russian polymath
Still it was too early to move to Red Sq where the countdown will take place, but all shops were closing/closed already by now. This is totally unfair? It's only 8pm people!! Left without a choice and since only coffee-house is open 24hrs on NYE, there we went to lepak - what a smart business strategy *pat on the back for CH*
I feel like having every single thing on the menu
Finally, it's the final countdown!!! We reached Red Sq around 11pm and the people there were like an endless ocean, more like a mob. We didn't dare to go close as there were so many screenings to go through. Afraid that it'll be difficult for us to run back to the metro station, once after all is over. Hence, we started playing smart and safe.
Welcome two zero one two!
Our train back to kursk was at 725am and it was only 12am at that moment so we thought to rest at the lounge in Kurskaya Vokzal. Unfortunately, we missed, not really missed but just let's say that we didn't manage to get on the last metro to Kurskaya Vokzal and were left stranded there in Red Square. How sad is that???!!
However, just like a sign telling us, we stopped and sighed helplessly, and much to our surprise, Coffee House was just next to us. We literally ran inside and took our spots - which became our spot for a good 6 hours.
And we ended up doing....
One was fixing her hair & look
One was all sleepy dreamy creamy
One was super duper hungry she feels like eating everything in 1m radius.
At sharp 6am we took the first metro and headed to Kurskaya Vokzal. In between, we made a quick dash to Park Pobedi station as it is known for being the deepest metro station in Moscow (and 2nd deepest in the world)
and of course it contains the longest escalator too. That is why Jackie Chan had a movie scene shot here, so he could have take 1 take 2 ..until take 20!
At last, the time to go back! What's funny is we mistakenly bought our train ticket and we ended up in a place like this...
For 8 and a half hours..could you believe that?!
But still, for how tired we were, we just slept all our way through..and reached Kursk safely.
