New Years day and a Russian Christmas (Jan 7th) in Siberia

We have decided to go and visit Nadia's father in Siberia for the holidays before my 90 day exit. We will leave Yaroslavl on December 28th for the 58 hour train ride and arrive on December 31st just in time to celebrate the arrival of 2008. We will stay until Jan. 8th (the day after Christmas) and then return to Yaroslavl on the same train ride. I am really looking forwrd to it and i only hope that we get a little lucky on the weather. It is not uncommon for the tempature to be below -50 this time of year. It will also be quiet dark as they have less than 5 hours of sunlight in late December. I will take plenty of pictures.