Greetings all,
Well, we've finally made it - and not a moment too soon. In T-minus 12 hours we'll be leaving the "little" city of Novosibirsk to go to the "BIG" city of Moscow. It will be a bitter/sweet departure. On the one hand it's been a real challenge to persevere with our limited mobility, tiny apartment (more especially the bed), a very rudimentary knowledge of the Russian language and getting accustomed to the food we can actually cook. Conversely, on the other hand it's been a real joy to be in an area that is so clearly not our home. To travel around the city by foot and just be so carefree with our time. All the wonderful memories with the deepening frienships we've made here.
We have to get Nick's passport, and all remaining documents -for departure tomorrow- from Nina this evening so we will be leaving for her apartment shortly. We will be getting our second home cooked Russian meal and we can't wait...yummm. Nina's apartment is about a 2o minute walk from ours. It's surprising that with the general disregard of motorists to pedestrians in this country that we haven't been severely injured. You have to be very cautious of the signs, and when the lights change "you better be out of the intersection".
We've posted a few pictures of our our favorite hangouts like: New York City Pizza, KFC (pronounced "rausteeks"), and the ever so famed grocery story around the corner of our apartment. I'm not sure if one of the cashiers generally doesn't like her job at the grocery store or if it's the "Americans" AGAIN. On our travels around the city we passed a couple of "Irish Pubs" that looked enviting, but with our limited language skills we figured it would have been just too difficult. Lastly, NYC Pizza albeit not the same culinary delight that we have back home pushed our patience on the last visit, and we're all too glad to be leaving that behind as well.
We'll be staying at the Moscow Holiday Inn. We're assuming that they have internet access, but we're not sure? Therefore this might be the last post for awhile. Kayla is just so excited to go on another plane ride that she can hardly talk about anything else. In her mind the plane ride is taking us directly to McDonalds. Nick on the other hand has no clue. He's just excited when we go for a ride in Genrich's car.
Next stop... McDonalds, and I hope it's as good as I remember it 3 years ago.
Dan/Sue/Kayla/Nick
Well, we've finally made it - and not a moment too soon. In T-minus 12 hours we'll be leaving the "little" city of Novosibirsk to go to the "BIG" city of Moscow. It will be a bitter/sweet departure. On the one hand it's been a real challenge to persevere with our limited mobility, tiny apartment (more especially the bed), a very rudimentary knowledge of the Russian language and getting accustomed to the food we can actually cook. Conversely, on the other hand it's been a real joy to be in an area that is so clearly not our home. To travel around the city by foot and just be so carefree with our time. All the wonderful memories with the deepening frienships we've made here.
We have to get Nick's passport, and all remaining documents -for departure tomorrow- from Nina this evening so we will be leaving for her apartment shortly. We will be getting our second home cooked Russian meal and we can't wait...yummm. Nina's apartment is about a 2o minute walk from ours. It's surprising that with the general disregard of motorists to pedestrians in this country that we haven't been severely injured. You have to be very cautious of the signs, and when the lights change "you better be out of the intersection".
We've posted a few pictures of our our favorite hangouts like: New York City Pizza, KFC (pronounced "rausteeks"), and the ever so famed grocery story around the corner of our apartment. I'm not sure if one of the cashiers generally doesn't like her job at the grocery store or if it's the "Americans" AGAIN. On our travels around the city we passed a couple of "Irish Pubs" that looked enviting, but with our limited language skills we figured it would have been just too difficult. Lastly, NYC Pizza albeit not the same culinary delight that we have back home pushed our patience on the last visit, and we're all too glad to be leaving that behind as well.
We'll be staying at the Moscow Holiday Inn. We're assuming that they have internet access, but we're not sure? Therefore this might be the last post for awhile. Kayla is just so excited to go on another plane ride that she can hardly talk about anything else. In her mind the plane ride is taking us directly to McDonalds. Nick on the other hand has no clue. He's just excited when we go for a ride in Genrich's car.
Next stop... McDonalds, and I hope it's as good as I remember it 3 years ago.
Dan/Sue/Kayla/Nick
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