Welcome, Baaack

So I arrived back to my Novosibirsk home and to T - my Russian babushka. I was so glad to be back to this home and with Baba T. However, not without problems...

A few hours after this last entry I arrived to Chicago, waited 2 1/2 hours for the next flight, boarded to plane and waited some more. The door wouldn't close on the plane because the inflatable slide (for emergency exits) had come loose. They said they would fix it and we would be on our way able to make up time as we flew the long rout over Greenland and down into Moscow. 30 min later the captain came on again and said they were having to replace the whole slide and it would be another 30-45 minutes. By this time I knew that I would not be making my connecting flight in Moscow (which only had a 2 hour layover), but relaxed as they began to play an episode of "The Office" while we waited :) Then half way through the show they came back on and said that it was taking so long we needed to de-board the plane and go to the other end of the terminal to board our new one. (And the sad part was, I didn't get to find out how the late birthday party that Jim and Dwight threw for Kelly went!)

Anyway, while we waited to board the next plane I talked to a counter lady (I don't know where their titel is?) and I asked her to see about changing my connecting flight out of Moscow. She said she booked me on the next flight, printed off the information for me and I was worry free, having a 3 hour layover in Moscow. We were on our way once again, only 2 1/2 hours later then expected.

By now I should know better then to assume that just because something works "that way" in the States, it doesn't always mean that it works that way here...

To make a long story short, the "counter lady" didn't get me on the next flight but thanks to God's help, Russian language ability I barely made it onto the next flight while managing to get all of my over weight luggage onto the plane free of charge (I guess the gentleman at the check-in counter felt pretty bad for me and knew if he charged me I would not have time to go pay the fee and still make my flight :) )

So I slept great when I finally got home (from 2am to 2pm) :) but then last night I was only able to enjoy sleep for 3 hrs when my body said "rise and shine" at 2:30am.

I apologize for my delay in posting my arrival. My internet "wasn't working" when I arrived and it took me a while to get around and get tech support to come take a look at it . . . just a few minutes ago a guy came looked at the problem and asked "where's your internet cable?" So, yeah, turns out I totally forgot to plug my cable into my computer . . . oops! Pretty sure that dude thinks I'm a french fry short of a happy meal - if he knew what I'd been through, maybe he'd cut me some slack . . . then again, this is Russia so probably not.

And if there's any typos or miss-spellings; remember you're probably not in Russia and cut me some slack ;)