second impressions?

Glitzy!

Now that I have taken over logistics and we have our bearings we saw a whole new side to the city. Basicly the whole center is just full of designer clothing stores. Everthing you could imagine from the west they have at least one of. The trouble is that these stores are void of customers! Its funny. Its obviously a status thing for the wealthy Russians to wear these brands but they just don't seem to get it. Do they think that we actually wear this shit???
I have also never in my life seen so many "prestige" European cars in black and with blacked out windows. Its all very strange. Needless to say we did a fair bit of walking and touristy things today which was actually quite interesting/fun. We leave here tomorrow afternoon for yekaterineburg. Haven't been able to get any photos up as there is always some muppet on the only pc here in this hostel. I wore the same clothes for five days straight and it was great. Clean clothes are over rated. (in cooler climates at least)