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Today we took a long, hot bus ride outside the city to Peterhof, the summer palace for the Russian royals. The inside of the palace was extravagant with gold and porcelain everywhere. Kenzie’s favorite rooms were the Queen’s bedroom, her writing room, and the throne room.<\/p>\n
We made it to Russia! \u00a0First stop was immigration where they needed to see “our papers.” \u00a0Kenzie passed with flying colors, and was issued her day visa for the day. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baltic-sea-cruise-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jbranchblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>
\nThe outside gardens were amazing as well! Keep in mind, this was just one royal family’s summer home!
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\nIn the evening, Kenzie stayed at Adventure Ocean while Jodi and Brad when back into the city for a river cruise. Overall, the stop in St. Petersburg was educational and a worthwhile experience, but we found that people here, in general, were very serious and not very friendly.
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