The 8th of March

поздравляю 8ого марта!!!

Happy 8th of March -- International Womens Day!

Today was a good day. The sun was shining, people were walking about the city and on the river.

Also, today I became a Walrus. I used to be a Polar Bear, but now I am a Walrus:

I took a nice short swim in the Neva, much like the man in the photo below -- in exactly the same spot.

photo here:
http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=4&photo_id=1782

"I feel extreme excitement and physical euphoria when getting out of that cold water," said Ivanov, a 43-year-old engineer, pulling on his clothes over skin reddened by the sub- freezing water. The outside temperature that recent afternoon was minus 2 degrees Celsius. Ivanov is one of at least 100 St. Petersburg ice swimmers -- or morzhi (walruses) -- who regularly make their way to a 12-square-meter pool cut through 30-centimeter-thick ice on the Neva near the Peter and Paul Fortress. ... "

Then we sunbathed by standing along the side of the peter and paul fortress on the river bank.... ahhh