Locks

Here's a great tradition that I discovered last night when Anna and her mother were walking me to a lovely little cafe and pie shop. When Russian couples get married they afix locks with their names on them to certain key bridges, usually the small quaint ones (in this case right next to the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood - more on it later) or on a bridge that has some special meaning to them. Obviously, this is hardly high marriage season, so there aren't a lot of locks to be found right now, but the joke in the summer is that the bridges are in danger of collapsing because of the extra weight.