OK...so here's the deal...I'm trying to figure out the new computer and how it organizes it's photos and uploads and all that stuff...iPhoto and My Pictures have virtually nothing in common...and I'm a bit befuddled!!! At any rate...I'm still figuring it all out...and in the meantime...here's a bit of a retrospective...we went to Copenhagen for the Rotary International Conference in 2006...one of the reason's I agreed to my hubby's being President of his club that year was the added bonus that he was expected to attend the international conference...when he told me where it was I told him he absolutely had a responsibility to serve his Rotary community as he'd been called on to do....
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During the conference, we attended an event in Malmo Sweden, just across the Baltic from Copenhagen...it was almost Midsummer's Eve and the Swede's hosting our event entertained us with a traditional Midsummer's Eve dance...and believe it or not...this was taken close to 10:00 in the evening!!!
Sunset was finally around 11:00...
Several of the Rotary clubs arranged for a cruise in the Baltic...we stopped in St. Petersburg, Russia...a special stop for me as that is the birthplace of my paternal grandfather...
This is St. Isaac's Cathedral...one of St. Petersburg's largest cathedrals...
Opulence abounds in historic Russia...quite in contrast with the more current architecture of past the Soviet Union...
This is one of the most photographed churches in St. Petersburg...and you can see why...it's fabulous!!! It is commonly known as the Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood. It was constructed on the site where Czar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. The actual name is Church of the Resurrection of Christ. Alexander II was known for having freed the Russian serf's in 1861...unfortunately for him, he grew more conservative as his reign continued and as revolution was beginning to foment. He became a target of the revolutionaries and was assassinated.
