Natalie and I have been very busy for the past few months, and this blog post is a few months overdue (with a few planned to be published in the coming week).
During the last week in October, I had the privilege of being my dad’s +1 on a business trip to Russia, where we visited St. Petersburg, Kazan, and Moscow. The main reason for the trip was because my dad was speaking at a medical conference in Kazan (the first stop on his worldwide farewell-from-work tour). We had a great time sightseeing, meeting wonderful people and eating wonderful food (including a 14-course dinner at White Rabbit in Moscow and a one-course meal at Shake Shack).
Like every trip I take, I took a bunch of photos; the handful that I posted below are my favorites. Russia is full of amazing sights and architecture, but I’m not talented enough to appropriately capture the beauty or significance of most of the things I saw and experienced. There are a few pictures of some of the quirky things we experienced: we stayed at a very nice hotel in Kazan, but the hotel was attached to a very kitschy mall with a few odd sights. Unfortunately I didn’t get any photos of the beautiful hotel we stayed at in Moscow: The Metropol.
