We Made It!

Hello everyone! We made it to Moscow safe and sound but exhausted! The flights and transportation went well. All flights were on time. No problem with weight of our luggage(yet) and for our long flight from JFK to Moscow, we had and extra seat in our three seat row so Russ sat on one end and I on the other and there was extra room in the middle - that was nice! Even with the extra room though,  sleeping was near impossible. The plane was just loud and if I was lucky, I got 1.5 hours sleep. So when we finally got to our hotel, we slept for about 2 hours before heading our to sightsee. It is really weird when you recognize things in Moscow. The strangest thing is that wa we were driving from the airport to the hotel, it literally felt like no time had passes since we were here last  but it has been two months.

We ventured out to Arabat street that is mainly shops and street vendors. Ate at the Hard Rock Cafe and then waled back to the hotel. Just that little jaunt just wiped me out. We really wanted to try to stay up until 9pm ad then sleep  but at 6pm I could not even function. So we slept until about 10pm, ate downstairs at the hotel restuarant and went back to bed around 12:30 am and slept until 7:30 this morning! So with a good nights sleep and great shower and now and Egg McMuffin in my tummy, we are ready to go. Our flight does not leave until 5pm tonight so we have time to do more sightseeing this morning. We are at McDonalds now posting because of the free WiFI.

The weather in Moscow always seems the same, overcast and rain! We did see the sun yesterday and it was in the low 80s which is really hot for here. Not even the Hard ROck Cafe had air conditioning. But with the rain last night it will be in the low 70s. However, Astrakhan will be in the upper 90s this week. It will be a dry heat though so that will help - NOT!

It is amazing how traveling 8 time zones and little sleep will really mess with your emotions and mind. Yesterday, all I really wanted to do was go back home. Just the overall frustration of having to talk to people that do not understand you and really being out of your comfort zone along with the overall grumpy state that I was in due to the lack of sleep really started to focus me on myself and I forgot about the reason we are hear. But with a wonderful nights sleep, I am back to myself and am so excited to meet the kids tomorrow. 

We, so long for now. We will post again on Monday. I just want to tell our wonderful brave kids that we really miss them and love them A LOT - we want to send you lots of hugs and kisses. May God bless all of you who take the time to read my ramblings and pray for us.