We're Here!

Just an update for those wondering. We made it to Moscow and did some sightseeing. We had a few hours to kill until our connecting flight and our driver took us around to some of the hot spots like the Red Square with St. Basil's church and also to an observation area to see a panoramic view of a part of Moscow. The city itself is huge. I mean very, very large. They say it is home to 15 million people! We were pretty hungry so our driver, Max, took us to TGIFridays. Yes, I did say TGIFridays. It's not much different than one in the U.S. except the servers wear funny head pieces. The guys wear different patterned fedoras and the girls wear anything from wire antennas to big Minnie Mouse type bows. It was fun, though a little (ok, maybe a lot) over priced.

In the evening we were on our way to the domestic airport for our flight out to Siberia. We got here to our region a little after 7:30 a.m. local time. Basically, we've lost 12 hours coming over here. We were really tired and after checking in to our hotel, we hit the sack. We got up a while later and found a local grocery store, picked up a few snacks and came back to the hotel. We had a yummy espresso in the lobby cafe. We came back to the room to email our families. Later in the evening we ate at the hotel restaurant which was surprising tasty and not too expensive.

So, that's what's happening so far. As I'm writing this post, it's 8:45 a.m. and we will be heading downstairs to meet up with our facilitator at 11:00. We'll be able to go to the orphanage later on today so we are extremely excited. I'll try to post again this evening but I thought you all might want to hear how it's going so far!