Cat Exhibition

Yesterday I went with some of my new friends to this place called VDtset. It used to be called VDNK back in Soviet times, but they changed that and sort of look at you like you are crazy if you call it by its old name now. Oddly enough, the decided not to change the name of the Metro station serving it. I suppose some things are just too hard to change. I was pretty excited about going because this place was built to showcase the grandeur of the Soviet Union. There were exhibition halls for all the territories and nations that made up the Soviet Union as well as places to showcase agricultural, metallurgical, electrical, etc achievements. I really wanted to see what they had told their people.
Sadly, none of this neat stuff remained. The buildings were still huge and impressive, but that's it. Inside it was like a street bazaar with vendors selling all sorts of goods, from camcorders to fur coats to blenders. Very strange. There still were exhibitions, but they were random museums. We almost went into something called the "Cat exhibition" because it was only about 2 dollars and it was called the cat exhibition. We figured, however, that it was just a place to buy cats. Judging from the number of people we saw carrying kittens, I think our guess was correct.
The other thing we learned, besides the fact that the glory days of the Soviet Union seem to be completely over, was that a meal can become pretty expensive if you don't realize that they quote a price for one amount, but the default portion is three times as big. We got a lot of food, but none of us had planned to spend 18 dollars on that meal.