We Made It!

We finally made it to Russia...3 flights and 16 hours later we are here!! Overall we had a great trip! We said goodbye to our girls and I tried very hard not to cry.. when we got to our first security checkpoint they checked my bag and they took my bubbles.. stealing from the orphans who have never seen bubbles! Then I got weepy... I know it is silly but I think because I was trying so hard not to cry in front of my girls I let it out on the poor airport security guy..When he told me I couldn't take my bubbles my eyes quickly filled with tears... Can you tell it's been a stressful week? Anyways, along the way we met some really neat people. Good conversation always makes time go by faster. We tried to sleep on the flight from Phili to Zurich.. not so much..everytime I would fall asleep we would hit some crazy turbulance and it felt like the plane was going to fall out of the sky, like maybe we would end up on some island and be on the next episode of "LOST"..Oh well..we got to spend all of 1 hour in Switerland.. Swiss people are soooo nice! Like crazy nice! We landed in Russia at 2:15pm.. and Viktor was there to pick us up! He had no problem picking out the Americans.. Me and my hot pink shirt and flip flops and my husband with his plaid shorts and flip flops and we were all smiles..He knows very little English and we know very little Russian...Somehow he and Michael were able to talk about MMA fighting..that was an interesting conversation... nice guy! Now we are about to venture out into the city for food!!! We have our committee meeting tomorrow morning!! Can't wait!