A taste of Some Pictures

So, a few of the photos from the photographer are online. There blog has a section for our event. We will see in time just what all we get from them, but these look great. For information purposes, and for google rating assistance, here is a link to there website. Its Erin Johnson Photography.

My friend who was along, also snapped some pics, you can see his here.

WeddingS

So I went and got married this weekend. I'll put up various photos and interesting tidbits about the event. Come back and check, there will be stuff here soon.

Great fun event, a wonderful bride and good friends and family...

Masha hard at work.

This process has so much paper work.  Masha is busy trying to get her moms paperwork done.  How sad it will be if her mom can't come.  It shouldn't be a problem but its taking lots of Masha's time.

Forgetful

I forgot to bring my camera this time. So what few pictures I take are with my phone, and the quality is marginal at best.

Today Masha and I went to the clinic and she had her cast removied. It was very interestig, and a little tramatic for Masha. This was a trama clinic, so every one there had a cast of some kind. We waited with a group of old people, with various boddy parts in casts, and 1 young boy. Masha joked that only old people, little boys, and Masha break things.

I wont go into detail of Masha's tramatic event, but it was very interesting to end up standing alone with a group of old Russians, chattering to me. I think I was getting advice? I just smilled and noded and they didn't seam to notice that I had no idea what they said. It seamed like a moment out of some strange comidy, these old people acting concerned with casts on there arms and legs. Very strange.

Every day here has been aboslutly perfect. Blue skys, light clowed cover or none. It rained one night, but as far as the daytime goes it has been absolutly perfect. Masha said this will be the hottest week of they year, and its maybe 80 degrees, but probably more like 75. I had to appoligis to her, virginia is colder in the winter and warmer in the summer... Even though the wether has been perfect, we have spent a total of maybe 1hr outside. Mostly masha can't get around so we go nowhere...

Still its a great time, and we are getting her things all packed away... Olga was displesed with me for the Superior Pack being dirty. It even had dog hairs, shame on me... After she cleaned it out, there was some dirt in the bottom and dried leaves. It was good to use. I guess now there is a little bit of northern minnesota dirt her in Russia...

Packing up Masha

We are packing up Masha's things.  We will need to make a second trip it seams.  Olga is a packing master, and they are systimaticaly packing and documenting all things.  I'm not much help except for things that are hard to reach or something needs holding.

MY Bag

I got to watch my bag load into the airplane.  My seat is kind of in the back end of the plane.

Landed

This flight has to be one of the best ever.  Having WiFi on the plan is amazing.  I will definitly seek it out in future air travle.

In flight

I'm on my way to atlanta, and there is wifi on the plane :D

At the Airport, flying off to Russia agin.

I'm sitting at the airport, waiting to board my flight to atlanta so I can fly from there to Moscow. The woman at the ticket window scared the crap out of me. Here is a discription of what happened...

I'm waiting in line, finaly its my turn and I walk up to the little checkin computer. I swipe my passport and then enter my flight number. The computer says, I need "Special Handaling" So I try again, this time enteing my ticket number. Same message. So I wave over the woman, and show her. She asks where I'm travling, I tell her Atlanta then to Moscow. She informs me that its so they can check my Visa. I show it to her, and she starts pulling up infomraoitn on her computer. She asks me what my flight number is, so I tell her. She says "There is no Fligh 1565", so then she asked, where are you flying to again, I again tell her, Atlanta then to Moscow, she says, "hmmm, there is no flight 1565 to Atlanta, only 1997" So I hand her my printout of my ticket information. The date in the lower left is of the day I printed the information, so, July10th. She then says, to me "Oh, your flight was yesterday thats why I can't find the flight number..."

I staired at her in disbelife for a moment, then just said "No, its today at 11:20", I looked at the papers in ther hand, and I saw the place it said July 11th and pointed to it. She appoligesed and informed me that the flight number had been changed to 1997. She printed my tickets and everything was just fine.

For that one split moment I thought I had missed my flight.

Russia here I come again...

Its a few weeks away now, but my 3rd trip to Russia is comeing up. I will go the Ivanovo on July11th and return July18th. I will bring Masha back with me, so I'm very exited. There is no big events planned for this trip, just to go and help prepair her to come home with me. I'm sure we will find some entertaning things to do also.