Ooooh, did you just Swan Lake?

Update from Dave's last blog. His boxers are still wet. Well that's not entirely true, his clothes were finally dry this morning but only after hanging them on the coat rack in our hostel.

Yesterday was not his day. What with the laundry and then the chafing. You just imagine the worst day you've had recently and then picture that day after you've dumped a can of cayenne pepper down your pants. Kind of kicks the crappiness up a notch doesn't it?

As Dave mentioned we saw the last of St. Petersburg this morning. But we did get to check out a ballet last night that was pretty cool. Never considered myself a ballet kind of guy but I have to admit it was interesting. Especially when you have an idea of the story. We saw Swan Lake at an old theater in the heart of St. Petersburg. It looked like the staff of Nippon TV was in the audience. Even though the announcer said please do not take any pictures about half of the audience - which was either Korean or Japanese - was popping flash bulbs throughout the thing. There was a woman in front of us video taping the thing. I swear I saw that bootleg on eBay this morning.

Another highlight of the show was when an older Russian man pulled what we now like to call a "Swan Lake" fart. The guy stood away from his group of friends right near us. He then proceeded to rip a loud one that I thought was the floorboards creeking in the old theater. Then, while walking down the aisle to his unknowing group of friends he spreads his stench by waving his program back and forth by his ass, essentially clouding the whole aisle with his borscht blowout. It will go down in my book as a classic.

We are now in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia and I can already tell I'm going to like it here. We are in the old town area and it really has a quaint feel to it. Narrow cobblestone streets and old pubs. My kind of place.

More to come after we get out and about and offend the locals.

Brian