Wednesday, Apr 22nd – Moscow
Well, reality hit a home run last night. Maddox was either over-stimulated, overtired, underfed, overfed, constipated, or just sick of being around 2 people who he couldn’t understand and in a place he wasn’t familiar with and didn’t find the adventure fun anymore. He finally gave in around 2am. All 3 of us slept until 10am. Then we packed up the room and headed to Moscow…that was an adventure all in itself. In case any of you are ever coming to Russia and planning to take a flight within the country, just some info…the airplane we flew on was originally designed as a Soviet bomber (thanks for that piece of trivia Britt…I don’t feel better), they really don’t care about seatbelts, bags stowed properly or where you sit even though you have an assigned seat. They do care about baggage weight…all your baggage, including carry-ons and strollers. So, we were 18kgs over our weight limit…just 1500roubles extra (about $50) and we were told to give it in cash in our passport and hand the passport to the check-in clerk who promptly removed the cash and gave us back our passport. By that time we didn’t really care, we just wanted on the plane…then we found out all that other stuff I mentioned. We left our hotel in St Petersburg at 1:30pm and finally arrived at our hotel in Moscow at 9pm…and the flight was only 1hour long. Maddox did pretty well on the plane and on the way to/from the airport. We are staying at the Marriott Aurora with Marriott reward points and boy is it nice! The current rate is around $400 a night. We kind of feel like the Clampetts. It is so nice in fact that we can’t even afford to eat here. We decided to just get something in the hotel for dinner since it was so late, but would have required a small loan. So as Keri exercised her increasing Russian vocabulary and battled bedtime, Britt trekked all over Moscow looking for something to bring back for dinner. Maddox fell asleep in about 7 minutes tonight…thank goodness. We leave tomorrow morning at 7:30am for Maddox’s medical evaluation. It is required for his visa. Hopefully we’ll have the afternoon free to see some of Moscow before and after Maddox’s nap (we will probably sleep too). Sorry there are no pictures today…I only took one all day and quite frankly; I am too tired to upload it to the computer. I promise lots of pictures tomorrow.
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