Airports are my favorite!

Sitting in airports sucks a lot. But it's SO much better with free wifi!!! Thank you Dulles Airport for being my new best friend. After staying in the hotel for the past 2 and a half days without internet, I am so happy to have it back. I can check my email on my phone but it's not the easiest thing I've ever done and between ski team stuff, moving to Moscow stuff, and all the other stuff I get in my inbox, trying to email on my phone has made me want to cry.

Plus I didn't get to update my blog!

But now I am here, with my bag (and skis) safely checked, checked in, and chilling until my 4:58 departure. We got here semi-ridiculously early because we had to be checked out of the hotel at 12 so we were a bunch of orphaned travelers. But it was good because when the self-check kiosks totally failed (as usual) to read our visas, we were hardly in a hurry. And I didn't get detailed in security for carrying a potentially deadly weapon.

(For those of you who don't know that story - it was a metal 9 inch long anchor that my mom was sending to Cory and I had to plead with the security lady to let me keep it)

So far the program seems good. We're doing some cool stuff in the city (especially for someone who loves politics like me!) like a Moscow city government tour, tour of a top secret Cold War bunker, tour of the Kremlin, and a visit to St. Petersburg. There are only 5 people on the trip (including me) plus our Resident Director who is kind of like our handler/cruise director. It's a small group, which concerned me but actually turned out well because everyone is getting along really well and they all seem nice.

Pause - some lady is asking me questions in Russian that I don't know the answers to. Ok, now that we got that all sorted out...let's go to Moscow!!!!