Off to Moscow!

Now that our whirlwind tour of Krasnoyarsk is done we are flying back to Moscow. We were drive to the airport Saturday morning and after checking in for our tickets we sat in this small terminal area to wait. Even though it was the morning I got us both a Coke to have something to drink. We had been getting a free bottle of water each day in the hotel, but we had to ration it. We used it for drinking and also brushing our teeth, as the tap water is not what you want to drink (without boiling).

We board the plan in the cold, sit back and relax, then we are off to Moscow. We get into the airport (seemed a little less crazy than last time), and we are taken to a hotel next to the airport. Still no sign of our luggage, but we get to our room and relax. This is a newer hotel, a little nicer, some shows on tv in English. We finally got our luggage later in the afternoon, it was soooo nice to have a change of clothes. We changed and headed downstairs to have an early dinner at the Don Pepe's TexMex restaurant. Yeah, pseudo-TexMex in Moscow. It wasn't bad, though. We headed upstairs and relaxed for the rest of the . Nothing exciting but that was just fine after our exciting past couple of days.

Sunday morning, make our way to the airport, figure out where to go and we get in line. We had to wait until the lines for our flight opened up, we were a little too early. That's ok, we wanted to have plenty of time to figure things out. we get through security, check our luggage, get our tickets, and make our way around to our gate. We sit down and rest. A little closer to home, yay. We had a chance to think and talk about the past few days, both of us enjoying it and looking forward to being able to go back. Start to hear English being spoken, kind of strange to go from not hearing it to having people speaking it. Get through security to our gate area, wait, board and fly to Atlanta. It was a long flight, watched several movies, got to Atlanta. Had a quick bite before boarding our flight to Richmond.

We land, Heather's parents picked us up and took us to get a few groceries, then we finally get home! Yay! It was so nice to be home, even though we weren't gone for too long. It will be interesting to see how it goes on trip #2. At least there will be more actual days in Krasnoyarsk with the same amount of flying.

Now it is time to try and get back to a normal schedule. Heather took Monday off and I worked from home so we could ease into things. Now it's time to prepare for trip #2.