Monday Morning

Our first morning here and we are ready to go. We got up and went to....wait for it....McDonald's. Yes we just can't get away from that. Interestingly enough they don't have breakfast food so I had a McChicken sandwich and fries so that was a bit weird. 
We had chapel this morning and Doug spoke about his recent trip to Athens and Nazareth. We did do some walking around and saw all of the changes from three years ago. Things are more modern and cleaner, which is good. 

We are getting ready to go to a local children's hospital and put beds together and bed tables so that should be fun. Frank and Bobby Huffine get here in a few hours so we are looking forward to hooking up with them. You may have heard about a plane crash in Russia (that had Americans on board) but obviously it wasn't us. Apparently it did leave from Moscow but was headed to the Ural Mountains. Keep those families in your prayers.

The trip over was eventful. It started out with our flight to Chicago from Nashville getting cancelled and having to take an earlier flight, which actually was delayed until about time of our original flight time. In Chicago they gave us a hard time about not having a visa but we didn't have to have any because we weren't leaving the airport. We got this taken care of and then in Moscow we went to the Transit office and they had no idea how to help us with our connecting flight but after about 3 hours we got through that. It was a good thing after all that we had a long layover. We are concerned about the trip back through Moscow though because our layover is just a couple of hours so we are going to try to take care of that this week and figure out how to manage it. There is a local Don Bass Aero office nearby so we will go there to try to figure it out.

One thing that God obviously had his hands in was getting Doug and Marge here. They were leaving out of Dallas and barely made it out because of Hurricane Ike. They ended up going a different route through Frankfurt to Moscow and we hooked up in Moscow. They were supposed to come through Chicago with us but were lucky to get out of Dallas when they did.
Well that is enough for now I guess. We are anxious to get to work and work out some of this jet lag we are feeling. I will post later this evening about our days events and hopefully eventually get some pictures up.

Later!