Day 1 in Arkhangelsk

Hello everyone, we are in Ark and are already experiencing new things. It was a very long journey starting with a 6 AM flight to DC, then a 9 hour wait. The flight over to Moscow was fine. However we had to be driven to the other airport in Moscow which is on the other side of town and took 90 minutes. Moscow is very spread out and large. It looks like a normal larger city but with different billboards and older and strange trucks and cars. Some normal things you pass like car dealerships and movie theatres. It reminded me of like Dallas or Houston. Nothing like St. Petersburg which is all very older and tightly close together.

We then flew out about 3 hours after getting to Moscow to Ark. That was a small plane, but fine. We had to be bused out to the plane that was about 50 yards from where we got on the bus, and the bus was not there so we had to wait about 10 minutes just to get on the bus. Even the little 4 year old girl traveling with us, pointed at the terminal and looked with a question why we had to do that when the plane was right there.

So after about 35 hours of travel we finally got to a room with a shower and bed. It was nice. We have an appointment to prepare for court in a couple of hours and will go to court in about 24 hours. We think we might venture to the grocery store in a few to see what we can find. We are pretty much on our own with the exeption of being told when a driver is coming to get us for appoitnments.

Write more later.