Things I miss about Russia

Things I will miss about Russia:

1. Caviar on the breakfast buffet

2. The availability of alcohol at ALL restaurants

3. Caviar filled crepes at fast food restaurants

4. Twice a day maid service that includes washing the dirty dishes

5. Caviar with scrambled eggs

6. Vodka and Cranberry juice being WIDELY available

7. Ice sculptures

8. Fresh bread

9. Caviar with smoked salmon

10. Borsht

11. Fish soup

12. Caviar on buttered bread

13. Restaurants that serve breakfast from 10am to 3pm and start happy hour at 4pm with every third drink being free

Things I won’t miss about being in Russia:

1. The inability to read the labels in the grocery store

2. The inability to read street signs

3. Not being able to see the sun

4. The subfreezing temperatures

5. Being trapped in a huge city with TOO MANY other people

6. The fact that ice sculptures decorate the city for several months of the year

7. The lack of good beef on the menu

8. Living in a hotel

9. The 2 pair of jeans and 6 shirts I’ve been wearing since the 22nd of December

10. Having to discover how each and every faucet is plumbed. – OK, you always have a 50/50 chance but I relish in the certainty that cold is to the right and hot to the left.

11. Starched bed sheets

12. Seeing the sun on only 4 of the past 48 days