{"id":1036,"date":"2011-07-09T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergosorphans.wordpress.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2012-03-27T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T06:20:23","slug":"spu-last-day-of-sightseeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/spu-last-day-of-sightseeing\/","title":{"rendered":"SPU: Last day of sightseeing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Preveyet from Russia! (\u201cHi!\u201d in Russian!!!)<\/p>\n

These last two days have been full of discovering St. Petersburg and creating life long memories. Yesterday began with seeing the Winter Palace inside of the Hermitage Museum. We saw works of art by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and many others. \"\"<\/a>Not only were there beautiful pieces of art inside, but the building itself was a masterpiece. After hours of exploring the Winter Palace we walked outside to our first Russian storm. \u00a0After getting under the down pour, we ran to dinner where we sat down for traditional Russian dumplings. Overall it was an adventurous day.<\/p>\n

Today, we went to St. Isaac\u2019s Cathedral where we were able to climb to the top and see all of St. Petersburg. The view was spectacular, we feel so blessed that God has led us to such a beautiful place. After this we ventured to the Spilled Blood Cathedral, where the walls are covered in Mosaics.\"\"<\/a> It took twenty years for the cathedral to be finished. Aryn\u2019s exact words were, \u201cI feel like a princess in the palace\u201d (the outside really did look like a fairytale.)<\/p>\n

And, tonight we went to the Ballet! We saw Swan Lake! Beautiful Russian ballet and music. Being in St. Petersburg this week has felt like an amazing vacation, but we are ready to get to our mission sites to begin what God has called us here to do. \"\"<\/a>We are so excited to see the children and we have been praying for them every day. Thank you so much for your prayers and support.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we leave our home that we had for the first week. One team going to Novgorod, the other moving into an apartment, which is a block from the orphanage. We cannot wait to start next week and meet the kids!<\/p>\n

Love, The Russia SPRINT teams<\/p>\n

P.S. Thank you for all your comments!! By the way, to see us better, click on the picture to enlarge it. \ud83d\ude42\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preveyet from Russia! (\u201cHi!\u201d in Russian!!!) These last two days have been full of discovering St. Petersburg and creating life long memories. Yesterday began with seeing the Winter Palace inside of the Hermitage Museum. We saw works of art by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and many others. Not only were there beautiful pieces of art inside, but the building itself was a masterpiece. After hours of exploring the Winter Palace we walked outside to our first Russian storm. \u00a0After getting under the down pour, we ran to dinner where we sat down for traditional Russian dumplings. Overall it was an adventurous day. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,79],"tags":[32,33,38,41,44,50,57,66],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spu-teams-2","category-teams-2","tag-ministry","tag-missions","tag-orphans","tag-russia","tag-seattle-pacific-university","tag-spu","tag-sunergos","tag-teams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j3in-gI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}