Frost & Orion vs. the Cold War

I'm posting a couple of links to news report from 1989 about the fall of the Berlin Wall.  These are for anyone who would like to know a little more about what a monumental thing it was or for those who would simply like to remember.  I grew up in a world where there was "East Germany" and "West Germany," "East Berlin" and "West Berlin."  The Iron Curtain wasn't something in a history textbook.  It was real and feared.  Although there had been calls for the Berlin Wall to be torn down for many years, when it actually happened, it was hard to believe it.  It was shocking and amazing and thrilling and I remember it all.

I know to some this might not seem that interesting and history is boring, but if you watch these clips and look at the people's faces--the people yearning to make their way to freedom--hopefully you'll have a little better understand as to why I chose to tell the story the way I did.  Perhaps it wasn't written in as compelling or interesting way as it could have been, but for me, the sentiments behind the thoughts and motives of the characters are very real.

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/international-politics/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall.html

To Russia With Love

The family has arrived in Moscow!  Learning about this city has been a blast.

There are many things to see on Red Square, but I couldn't write about them all.  So these are the few I highlighted.

St. Basil's Cathedral

St. Basil's is officially known as the Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat

One of the chapels inside St. Basil's

Lenin's Mausoleum is the building (kind of hard to see) in front of the Kremlin Wall

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Outside GUM in Red Square

Inside GUM

Vocalise, opus 34, number 14 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, performed by Luka Sulic.