Well Yes, We DId Make it

Good day all. We are on the ground in Moscow, tired, but doing fine on this first Lord's day of three that we will be visiting here. After leaving Indianapolis late and being concerned about making our connection in Chicago and Helsinki, everything just kinda fell into place and the timing turned out perfect. I did discover that I had given Alex Sereogin the wrong airport wo again, we were a little concerned about causing him some trouble since he was coming to meet us. Thanks go to Dennis and Tina Faivor, back in Anderson, for their phonework in calling Alex for us while we were enroute since our phones wouldn't allow us to call Russia. Again things fell into place, or were at least pushed that way. We arrived safely to the hotel, tired from the long flight, but otherwise in good shape. The computer to replace Alex's old one, an IPad for Natasha and Dasha to use in their studies, and an electronic Bible reader were all delivered to make one tickled Russian. Thanks go to the Avon Heights church of Christ as well as individual contributions from members of the Anderson church of Christ for these electronic tools.

We all were ready for a nap so everyone retired for about three hours before we took and evening stroll. We weren't really ready to start in on the Russian cusine yet so we agreeably finished off the day at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yep, you read that right. I apologize for being already behind on the pictures. My camera was broken enroute. But, a replacement was found nearby and we hope to share some pics of the trip as planned.

Here's the evening view from our hotel right after a thunderstorm rolled through Saturday afternoon.

Out the same window, Sunday morning, Moscow, Russia.

Out for a Sunday morning stroll to pick up drinking water and a few other neccessities. This would have been about 2 am, eastern standard time.It was about 10 here and we were probably walking off the effects of the time change more than anything else.

And here's our happy little group in front of the south Moscow skyline.

Everybody seems to be feeling ok, just a little lagged. We're supposed to be meeting at Alex's house for worship at 4pm and we're all looking forward to that. I'll let you know how that turns out with greeting the brethren, Alex's family, etc. It appears that I have a great bunch of traveling companions. Everybody's pleasant and agreeable and it is especically pleasant to have my wife along on this trip. In answer to her last public comment on this blog, yes honey, Glad you're along and thank you for coming. Feel free to leave comments and I'll keep you posted, so keep dropping by for a cup.