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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Russia or Bust

As much as we have planned our trip out and confirmed reservations, with the Hodges, something always goes wrong. Only three hours before our flight from RDU was scheduled to leave, we got a phone call that our flight would be delayed two hours. With this twist of the itinerary, we wouldn't make our flight out of JFK to Moscow. In a matter of minutes, we had Delta on the phone pleading not to be changed to the Russian airline Aeroflot, or Aeroplop as its reputation precedes it. Last ditch effort was we were put on the already overbooked American flight out at 10:30am. Yep, it was exactly 9:05am. Will didn't need a plane as he flew down I40 and we arrived to be told to wait to see if 3 passengers would be no shows. With the luck of the Russian's behind us, we clamored into the last seats,like seat 24E for my tennis buddies, and for everyone else, think toilet and non-reclining. Lesson two: sign up for flight updates on your phone and always make international reservations with at least a four hour layover for those delayed and canceled flights. On our way on Delta!!! Thank you, God! *Tidbit because I have loads of time on the plane. The Russian Cyrillic language has 33 letters and resembles the Greek alphabet, both literally and figuratively. Russians stress one syllable of each word and when spoken it is stereotypical of every Russian movie you have ever seen. I have bought an English-Russian dictionary because most all signs are written in Cyrillic. The problem here is first one has to change the Russian to the English and then look up the word. Example: "Hello" in English ( since I don't have the Cyrillic on my keyboard is translated as ZDRASTvuytye, with the first syllable exaggerated. I think this is another weapon in their cold war arsenal because one  has to drink lots of vodka to be able to roll your tongue to expel from the gut those emphasized syllables! Ok. We are landing in five and a half hours. I'm off to Ambienland. See you when I get to Moskva.

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