Friday, July 16, 2010

Sprucing Up The City

Yes.....It's Cinnabon!!! Latest and greatest addition in the city!
The President of Russia visited Vladivostok this month for the 150th Anniversary of the city, so they really went to town and clean up the city. They put in new curbing, paved many roads, painted a lot of buildings, and decorated walkways, painted cement walls and really did some nice clean up.
This is a mural they painted on one of the buildings.
This is a walkway in the middle of town that goes down to the beach.
These are real flowers that they decorated the light poles with.
They painted several of the old buildings. It was amazing to see them paint the brick. I will have to take more pictures to show the contrast between painted and unpainted. It would really look nice if they did all the buildings.
I'm totally amazed that the workers don't kill themselves. They walk on top of buildings, climb scaffolding that is way high, paint crazy buildings, and they never have safety ropes, hard hats, or protective gear. They must not be afraid of heights either.

1 comment:

Pratt Family said...

That's hilarious how they gave the city a make-over...too bad it doesn't look that nice year-round. Yum, yum to the Cinnabon addition.