On the first Sunday night that we arrived in Russia, My baby and I decided to go to a well know “pick up” club in Moscow called Night Flight. Basically this club has women who are there specifically to get laid. The night we went was very slow. The holiday was just around the corner and a lot of folks where out of town and/or with family so the club was basically dead. There were a handful of very beautiful women but there were also several horny men there.

One guy at the bar could not stop starring at me. He was making me uncomfortable. My boyfriend jokingly said that they guy probably thought I was a hooker and was checking me out. I was dressed rather conservatively. I was in jeans and a long sleeved shirt…nothing flashy. The guy who was looking at me got up from the bar and started walking over towards me. “Ut oh” I thought….”he’s going to talk to me”. He starts babbling in Russian, I have no idea what he was saying, then he looks at my guy looks at me, then does a double take at my guy again and grabs his shirt. My guy was wearing an Affliction Tee. Nothing flashy…just a shirt…apparently they don’t sell Affliction clothing in Russia. The guy grabs my boyfriends shirt and goes on and on about how he tried to place an order with Affliction but they wont take out of country credit cards…he repeats his story about 5 or 6 times. We were trying to be nice but we were getting really annoyed with the fellow. He was nice and all, he had his friend buy us drinks but man on man the dude kept going on and on and on and on about Affliction. I got so tired I was about to leave with my guy when this cute blond girl grabbed us and saved us. She had to translate to the Russian Affliction fan as the night progressed because he was getting to drunk to speak english anymore. He kept asking me why I was in a known pick up spot with my guy and I had to explain that I was there to pick up on the ladies with him. The blond girl who had “saved us” loved that I was there for the ladies so she called over her sister…literally her half sister who was a bisexual. She was totally trying to pimp out her lil sis on me and it was totally awesome!!! I couldn’t take the drunk Affliction fan any longer. He kept trying to fake head butt and knee my boyfriend…I think he thought he was being funny or cute but he was being really weird and annoying. The bouncers almost had to kick him out a few times but Sugarbear and I dissuaded them from kicking him out. For all we knew he was some Russian Mafia guy who would find us and kill us later…so we played it safe. Things started getting weird when he started grabbing my boyfriends thigh. I started cracking up and telling my boyfriend he needed to be as assertive with this guy as my boyfriend always tells me to be with guys from parties or clubs….finally the tables had turned.bruahahhah. I left the two love birds to flirt heheheh while I went on the dance floor with the cute blond and her sister( who was obsessed with Shakira and wanted to dance to a Shakira song) We danced for a little then went to a table in the back. The girls took me to the bathroom telling me they had a present for me…Why were they giving me a present I was so curious. They told me to take off my shirt….I couldn’t argue with them….so my top came off. They handed me a very sleek sexy black top and asked me to put in on. They said “Happy New Year” and we went out in my new clothes . I felt so badly that I didnt’ have anything for them…but I had no idea they were going to come into my life that night,….I wasn’t ready

We stuck around for a little bit then decided to go back to the hotel…just my baby and me.

The next day Sugarbear and I were waiting for a group tour. A middle aged Russian man walked up to my boyfriend and started talking to him about how he lived in New York for several years and how he loves America. Then he started talking about 666 and hospitals…as if that wasn’t weird enough he says he wants to show us a picture. He takes out his phone….now at this point I’m already expecting to see something weird.

He breaks out the phone and displays a picture of what appeared to be him with a really really really nasty hangover. His eyes were bloodshot, his face was weathered. He shows us the picture and in one word he summed himself up…he looked at us and said, “Heroin”. Sugarbear and I started laughing a little then said..”hey we gotta find our group” and walked away. I couldn’t believe the freaks that my baby was attacking. LOL it was hysterical.

In our group we met up with these 2 Americans, Peggy and Laura. We hit it off really well through out the tour. It’s always nice when your in another country and you find another American…you automatically have a bond with them. We ended up going to dinner with them at an American 60’s style restaurant. It was really nice. The next night was New Year’s Eve. They took us to an outdoor flea market called Izmailovsky Flea Market. This flea market had some great deals but again, it was rather dead what with the holiday and people being with family. We had this amazing kabob like things called Shashlik..OMG it was so amazing. I had the chicken, baby had salmon and lamb…on a side note. I was not a big fan of the chicken in Russia. Actually I rather hated it. The fish was amazing, namely the Salmon. The salmon at every single place we ate was unbelievable.

So after the flea market, Peggie and Laura dropped us off at our hotel so we could sleep and then met us later for dinner. We went to Viet Cafe again. So we spent our first night at Viet cafe and our last night there as well. We had an amazing dinner and then around 9pm they kinda kicked us out of the restaurant because they were closing. Every place was closing early for New Years Eve. We walked to red square which was literally across from our hotel. Rather than just letting us cross the street, the army had barricades set up enforcing strict marching patterns. We walked in single file lines about 1/2 mile up then back down the street. If I have to say one thing about Russia, it’s very organized. After we went through the first metal detector we were frisked an then let into the red square. There was a huge concert outside of the red square right behind St. Basil’s. My bf really wanted to go to the concert so Peggie, Laura, SugarB and I started our trek. We marched with literally thousands down the streets of Moscow. What should have been a 100yard walk was turned into a 3 mile detour. No joke…we marched 3 miles to get to the concert and had to go through 2 more metal detectors…those Russians don’t fuck around. So we made it to the concert…it was about 11:45….almost midnight. The people in Russia still haven’t gotten it; they really don’t know how to party yet. They don’t get super excited about anything. They were dancing and everything but no one person there looked like they were really having a good time. The at 11:59 and 50 seconds til midnight Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev, The Russian President, come on the big screen and gave some really drab speech. I couldn’t tel lyou what he said but I can tell you this…no one spoke, no one moved when he spoke in his monotonous voice. Then the clock struck midnight….Medvedev was still talking. The crowd on the other side of the wall was exploding with cheers and we were stuck on the suckie side of the wall where no one was talking but still listening to the Prez talk. He finally finished and people cheered for about 30 seconds then the crowd split up and was gone in a mater of minutes….that was it. There were some fireworks, some cheers but nothing amazing….nothing mind blowing.

I was freezing my ass off so I pleaded with our group to go home or at least back to the hotel. We marched back another 3 miles and finally got to the warmth of our hotel. Peggie and Laura left and baby and I crashed in bed in each other arms. It was an amazing night. I love having someone to kiss at midnight on New Years Eve. Before Sugarbear I had no one so the last 2 years have been very special for me.

Thank you Sugar bear.

xoxoxo