Funny, Ted. That MUST be why it is closed on Fridays. We just saw Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi last winter and learned that every year they send him to Moscow for a touch up.

We sprung for room service coffee this morning. I shudder to think about the charge.

Our guide and driver are picking us up at 10:00. Today we are going to see a Cold War Nuclear bunker, built 200' below an unsuspecting apartment building, built to sustain communications in the event of war. Later we will go to the 16th century fortified Novodevichy Convent, the place where the czars stashed their unruly wives or other female relatives suspected of treachery, a small walled city described as
looking like a Russian fairytale. Gogol, Chekhov, composers
Prokofiev & Shostakovich and several Soviet leaders
including Molotov & Kruschev are buried there.

Then we are on to the boat for boarding. The boat stays docked in Moscow until Monday night and we will see more of the sights over two days of tours with AMA, so we have been trying to visit things we know are not on the schedule with them.