Made it back home with no issues, even landed an hour early! How often does that happen? In NYC and Chicago....let's go with NEVER. Anyway, it's nice to be back home. If you happen to look at the time this is posted you will notice that I am very much still on Eastern time. Nothing like a bit of jet lag to make things interesting. Woke up at 2AM yesterday, back to sleep at 5AM and woke up at 4PM. It's now 2:35AM and I'm feeling very awake. Oh well, in a few days it'll all be a distant memory.
I brushed up on my language skills on the plane by ordering everything in Russian and perusing a newspaper written in Russian. I received the food that I intended to order and the waitress was kind enough to play along and spoke only Russian to me. The newspaper, well that was just a reality check to remind me that I have a long way to go with this language. I am a bit surprised by how much I retained, as I was able to fend for myself with the waitress the other night in the restaurant (Olga kindly left me to take a call when it was time to order). The waitress was very patient and we eventually figured it out (sushi isn't quite as straight forward to order as Italian).
Stepping out of the airport, that was a reality check as well. I had forgotten about the pollution and traffic. It's all what one is used to, right? I'm sure in a few days everything will be back to normal.
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