We left Minneapolis Sunday night at 7:00PM. Just like last time, we first flew into Amsterdam before making our way to St. Petersburg. The flight was long but went OK. It’ll really be interesting to see how the flights go on the way home with two little boys on board!After landing at Pulkova Airport, we were pleasantly surprised to see Oksana. Oksana is the same wonderful translator we had during our first stay in St. Petersburg. We didn’t know whether she would be our translator this time around. We were pleasantly surprised to see a familiar face. We had a new driver this time though because Sergey's car wasn’t big enough now that Grandma and Grandpa were with. Our new driver's name is Mikhail, as in Mikhail Gorbachev. We're told he prefers to go by Misha though. Misha has a minivan big enough for us all and our luggage.
We took the long and congested trip from the airport to our hotel last evening. Oksana had a chance to go over what we can expect this week. Most importantly, she said we get to see the boys in the morning and that my mom and dad were invited to join us on our visit. What a great way to start the week! She gave us some paperwork to fill out during our down time too. Oksana said there's a slight chance we could wrap everything up here in St. Petersburg as early as this Friday. A lot would depend on whether we're able to get Sergei's and Roman's passports by then though.
Otherwise, we'll stick with Plan A and head to Moscow with the boys next Monday. In Moscow, we'll begin the next round of paperwork needed for the US Embassy. We don’t know where well stay yet if we end up going to Moscow early though because the apartment we're staying at is taken the weekend before we're scheduled to be there. We'll cross that bridge later.
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