Kazan, Russia

The next day we continued to Kazan. It was a long drive with not much to see until we got the edge of town and we came upon this over look.

We wanted to check it out more. so found a little path to pull of onto so we could relax.

Getting down the path was easy. Getting back up was a bit harder!

We finally made it to Kazan and found the apartment we had rented for the event. It was still pretty hot during the day but got rather cold at night.

The next morning we went into town to check things out and get tickets to the events.

We were here to see the Univeriad games. its like the Olympics but only for University age people who were still in school. The gorls volleyball team from America was represented by the Kansas State girls volleyball team so i wanted to go support them. First things first though were tickets.

We got to a ticket both and waited in line. It was HOT near 100 degrees and no shade around.

We waited and waited then took turns with one going into the local Mcdonalds, that was air conditioned, to cool down. Finally 4 hours later we had our tickets!

While waiting in line one of the local people told us of a restaurant near by that had traditional food. so we went there to celebrate. 

After a long rest and hydration period we walked around the city more.

The metro was the easiest way to get around

Just around the city center

Everyone was playing around the huge fountain trying to cool off

This was a bank

This to

Pyramids in Russia!

Finally their Kremlin

Their Kremlin has a Russian Orthadox Church inside

And a Mosque

After walking around for a while we decided to head home.

This is the metro at the Kremlin

We decided in the evening to ride motorcycle around.

We found this motorcycle club house

While I was taking the photo a car stopped to ask if everything was ok. He told us to follow him to a different club so we did.

This is our friend and his wife

Inside the club

One of the other members of the club was the manager of a theme park so he invited us there for free rides!

It was a fun evening and we slept like babies afterwards