Sunday

In Chicago our flight was delayed (of course) due to thunder storms. Our plane was coming in from Beijing and had to be in a holding pattern for an hour before it could land. By the time it came around to our gate,cleaned and ready for us to fly to Frankfurt,we were more then an hour delayed. As we were landing in Frankfurt our flight was taking off to Moscow.

We had to go out through security and try to rebook onto a different flight. They put us on standby for the next flight out and also booked us on the following flight. Luckily we were able to leave on the earliest Moscow flight.

Because if our delay into Moscow we did not have someone to pick us up from the airport. We tried using the payphones available but could not get them to work. We finally went to the information desk and thankfully they spoke English. They called our coordinator for us and she directed us to get an official taxi. Our taxi driver spoke some English and had no problems finding our apartment.

The apartment was great. It was nice, clean and comortable. We had an electric tea pot so we were able to boil water to drink. It was also nice to have a warm shower. Alla, our coordinator, told us to be ready at 2pm the next day because we had to get our medicals done and purchase flight tickets.