Monday, March 24, 2008

Saturday: We have arrived!


Throughout the day on Saturday, most of our trip members arrived to great fanfare at the lovely Holiday Inn Sushevsky in Moscow. Turns out the Holiday Inn is a lot nicer than we all expected from our experiences in the US!
We jumped into the Moscow lifestyle with a cocktail reception (graciously hosted by Pavel Khokhryakov, GSB '04) at the City Space Bar, with a magnificent 360 degree view of the city. Afterwards, the most hardy of us headed to the trendy Club Opera, where they attempted to exercise "face control" but we managed to use our business school skills (aka, money) to get through the door. After much vodka and dancing, one unnamed member of our group found his way to the wrong Holiday Inn, and instead of heading straight back to our hotel, chose to take a long nap at a nearby 24-hour diner.

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