Rain, rain, go away

Well, the weather did clear up a little. It then started to drizzle again and got overcast, cold and then some thunder. Then the clouds moved off and the sun came out and it got warmer. We then took a walk through the crowd (that would grow and shrink based on the rain) at the plaza towards the river. We walked down the river some, then turned back into the city. Not really looking for anything specific, just walking around to see what we would find (without getting too far). We ended up getting near to where our previous walk was, one street over, and we at the other end of a park that has a status of Lenin. There were some construction things in the way so I couldn't get a picture, but we will walk more tomorrow if the weather is ok. 

We ended up on the 'main' street that we were on before and I spied the reclusive 'California Pizza' on a side street, actually near the Subway. We headed there for dinner and had a few slices of pizza which was actually good and still cheap. I was able to get the food without too much difficulty with my limited Russian, so that was also nice. We left there and headed back and it started to rain again. It was the type of rain where all of a sudden there are large drops of rain slowly coming down, then turning into more and more large drops of rain. We got back to the hotel as it slowed down so we didn't get too wet. We watched a movie (The Wedding Planner) and the rain did it's dance of increasing then decreasing, back and forth. As the evening went on the rain got worse and more thunder and the whole off and on thing.

We just got done watching a 15 minute or so fireworks display over the river, marking the end of Victory Day. The grand finale was 5 or more minutes. Pretty neat little extra.