June 9th, 2010 – Russian Guards - by Marina

Our friend Jeff lent mom and me a book called "Russian Guards". The book just has pictures of all these Russian women who sit in the corner of the museum rooms and just guard the art or positions of the museums. Some of the women in the pictures are very serious looking, some look like the art they sit next to, and some just look the most bored they’ve every been in their lives. Now that we’re here, every museum we go in, mom and I see all these Russian women sitting around the museum just watching us very carefully, and sometimes staring at us. Sometimes we take pictures of them with the art just like the book. It’s the funniest thing ever!!

 When I pass by some of these women and they stare at me the whole time I pass, and I just want to go “Raaaarrww!” at them and see what happens. Maybe they just need a little scare every once in a while. This one woman in the summer palace followed us into the next room with this evil face and glaring eyes on all of us, just to make sure we really didn’t touch anything. That was creepy. Those women have got to be the most bored things in the museums. It’s kind of weird when you see them nodding off to sleep, but at the same time its funny. Russians are so serious sometimes when it comes to museums. It’s that or they’re just more interesting to look at than the art when they fall asleep.