Freezing Rain.....as fun as it sounds!

So the snow yesterday was all a ploy to get silly foreigners overexcited about Russian weather, today we have freezing, sideways-blowing rain and a low of -6 degrees, I think I'm gonna need another coat to go on top of the one I already have! The update on the apartment that in hindsight has become the greatest apartment in the world ever is that the owner is missing, presumed skiing in Switzerland, and they can't rent it to us without his say so. My theory is that they have found someone to rent it for a higher price and are just seeing how crazy they can make their story. So, our rent in the student accomodation runs out on monday and we've got the weekend to find somewhere to live. It'll never match the pimped out mirrored hall, MASSIVE fridge, leather couches, piano and general great location of the last one....sniff!

Lui has been doing some work for a magazine here and they asked him to do a club review at the weekend. There's an interesting institution here in nightclubs called Face Control, basically bouncers on the biggest power trip in the world...ever! They are so inconsistent, you might get in somewhere five times in a row and then they'll turn you away point blank the next five times. Anyhoo, the magazine had been invited by this club to review it and, being the concerned citizens that we are, Anna and I went with Lui to help him spend his drinks budget. Couldn't find the club for a start (they love hiding their clubs down dark threatening alleys here, they make you work for your carousing!) and when we made it to the door the knuckle draggers in charge wouldn't let us in! Lui explained to them that we were there to review the club, on foot of an invitation from the management, they answered that it didn't take four of us to review a club and they would only let two of us in. They didn't seem to understand the concept that Lui had the power to be VERY nice about the club or verrrrrry stingy! Long story short, if your interested in the review that he wrote, based on his spending a total of 1 minute in there and his friends being left outside its at www.elementmoscow.ru%2Farticles.php%3Fi%3D123000%26s%3D10-night-life. Say it with me kids....Moscow, there's gotta be a better way! (its a running theme here, still love this dysfunctional city though!)

No pics today, the computers not cooperating.