it's official

"verbal contracts are as good as the paper they're written on."
or so the saying goes.

only, now i have a piece of paper that says that i'm going to china, mongolia, russia, and finland this summer!

well, that is, after i get my tickets to beijing and my flight from helsinki to lax. or riga to london to lax. but that's just a back-up.
and also, all those damn visas.

but still!
according to VodkaTrain, i'm going!

the great wall, ger camps, st. basil's cathedral, and the petersburg hermitage!
i'm so pumped.