MOSCOW

We made it to Moscow! Everything went pretty much as planned, and it was a pretty tough day, I’d say terrible actually. Remember the “7 hour flight?” Who ever told me that was wrong. It was 91/2 hours. I could only get her to sleep about 30 minutes of the flight. The cold medicine didn’t help. There are 5 airports in Moscow. We landed at DME, I’m not sure what that stands for, but it took three hours to get from that airport to our hotel. The traffic was unreal. Naomi was asleep for most of car ride. When I was checking in at the front desk it felt like 4am to me, but it was about 7pm Moscow time. Moscow is a great city! The air port was beautiful. One of those Russian millionaires helped me carry my bag. I saw so many stores and restaurants that looked really cool during my ride. For most of the drive there were 6 lanes going one way 6 lanes going the other way, bumper to bumper for 3 hours.
This morning we were taken to a required Dr. Exam for the kids. It was the same Dr. that examined Scotty four years ago. He said the only problem he sees is keeping the boys away from her! Naomi had her first McDonald’s today! We had to get it to go because there was no place to park. The Diet coke was warm, the burger was cold and we didn’t get any ketchup, but we were both very happy! This city is so interesting it would be a great place to go on vacation. Tomorrow we plan to go on a tour of the Kremlin. I’ve looked over a brochure, there looks like there is a lot of history there.
We went out for a walk with the stroller to the grocery store Svetlana the coordinator advised us to go to. It was amazing in there; the bakery was gorgeous, and shockingly expensive. They had a display of seafood lying out on ice unlike I’ve ever seen before. I wondered if she sent us there so we’d be impressed. On the walk to the store I noticed many people parallel parked on the sides of the streets, but even more who just drove three tires up on the side walk, you can squeeze more cars in that way. People Park in the cross walks too, so going for a walk down the sidewalk is like walking through a parking lot in a way.
Here are a few photos, a couple peaceful moments and Naomi enjoying the view out the window on her first flight! And her 1st cheese burger and fries!

We went to the Kremlin today!