From Frankfurt

Note: this post has been reposted, and the original comments were lost.

So we got up at 3:45 this morning, Region time (eventually I will say what region we were in, but I'm not ready yet), which is ten hours ahead of Dallas. We checked out and our translator, with her husband riding shotgun, drove us to the airport. The airport is about 45 minutes outside of town, so it was a long drive but we were not sleepy because we had slept yesterday afternoon. We are on such a short trip on so many planes through so many time zones we have not bothered to try to get on local time. We just tried to be awake for the adoption stuff and get up when we are supposed to and we aren't worried about what time it is as long as we sleep at some point. C likes to plan his sleep for the planes. I try to plan mine for when I am not on a plane, as I don't sleep that well sitting up and the only way for me to efficiently battle the discomfort of a long plane ride in cattle coach is to knit myself through it as long as possible.

The flights today were uneventful. The first blast of cold air we have gotten on this trip, and the only time we have needed our jackets, was when we deplaned in Moscow today. Aeroflot planes seem to all deplane onto the tarmac, then you take a bus to the terminal. The Moscow airport is not terribly big, at least the one we were in, SVO, but it's okay. Lots of duty free stores selling very expensive goods. The bathromms were BYOTP...glad I knew to bring some with us. To get between terminals for transfers, you go through several checkpoints (which is us basically playing follow-the-leader since we had no idea where to go or what to do half the time...it is a confusing system for us and different from any we've encountered before). Then you get on a bus and go off-roading around the airfield to the other terminal. I recorded that journey today just for entertainment purposes. I held the camera as steady as I could considering we were bouncing around all over the place.

Once we arrived in Frankfurt, we went straight to the hotel here at the airport and I crashed. C had slept on the flight while I knitted. The Aeroflot website says they do not allow knitting needles, but nobody blinked an eye at my little size 1 toothpicks. C went and found food since he could not stomach the plane food (it was not the worst I've ever had...but it wasn't good by any stretch). I crashed for several hours.

We are paying for internet here, too. No free internet anywhere on this trip.

We are about to go in search of food here. It is very late and we may have issues with that. And just so you know, the Frankfurt Sheraton at the airport has a 24 hour poker channel on in English. Just in case you ever wondered.