The voyage out

We got to JFK in plenty of time for our flight, so I could have a last hot dog from a stand and play with Mila for awhile as Olya shopped for gifts from duty-free. In all hectic preparation to move, I didn't think about the magnitude of what we're doing, until I stopped by the newsstand and realized that I wanted to buy almost everything because it would be a long time before I'd have that kind of choice again.

Aeroflot was in rare form our flight. We were delayed on the runway for nearly two hours (making us extremely glad that at the last moment we found someone to take care of Gryeka for us!). We took off without a word of warning, causing the lady behind us who was looking for something in the overhead compartment to tumble down and injure herself. They kept all the cabin lights on for a very long time at takeoff and landing, helping to keep Mila wide awake. The food was hilarious -- for breakfast they served a sort of pizza flavored Hot Pocket.

But we made it one piece, we all got to sleep a little bit, and to my incredible amazement, there were almost no lines at passport control once we got to Sheremetyevo! This is perhaps because it took us a long time to round up our incredible amount of carry-on baggage before we got off the plane.