Russia Trip - 5/7-5/18 Moscow River dinner cruise & finished 7/23
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RE: Russia??? - 3/20/2012 4:37:52 AM
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uphillklimber
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Oh you betcha. I wanna read the report, with the pictures, of course!!!!
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RE: Russia??? - 3/20/2012 8:04:38 AM
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Kwing
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Oh hail yes!!
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RE: Russia??? - 3/21/2012 10:56:42 AM
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ulle trautvag
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Love to see it. Is it only Russia or are you going through any of the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania? I'm Estonian, by the way.
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Russia Trip - 5/7-5/18 - 6/28/2012 11:26:15 AM
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Well, I've finally got a bit o' time to get this thing rolling!! DH needed to travel to Sakhalin Island for business, so I said "Not without me you don't!!"  Or something to that effect!!
We left Denver May 7 & arrived in Washington-Dulles, then got on the biggest plane I've ever been on to fly to Moscow!!
I took this to show the plane. It was an Airbus 330-300. There were several NASA folks on this flight. The dude with the beard is one of them.
We flew over the tip of Greenland & right down the center - long ways- of Iceland, but it was dark so we didn't get to see anything. 
It took 10 hrs +/- to fly from Wash/Dul to Moscow. My first view of Moscow!!
There is a ton of farmland around Moscow.
Yup, we aren't in Kansas anymore, Toto!! 
We flew into Moscow DME airport, then took a 1 1/2 hour limo ride (courtesy of Mark's boss) to Moscow SVO airport where we had a 9 hour flight to Yuzhno, Sakhalin Island, Russia.
Looking back at Moscow DME airport. See ya in 11 days!!
The following are just a bunch of random building shots & scenery taken on the trip from DME to SVO! I kept taking pictures of the buildings to remind myself I was REALLY in Moscow!!  I had not adjusted the time yet, so add 8 hours to the time show. These were around 11:30 AM-ish Moscow time.
We didn't see any single family homes around Moscow. We just may have not visited that part of the city, tho.
These looked like single family homes, but there were several entrances, so it looked like they maybe only had 4-6 homes per building.
MOSCOW!!!
We counted at least 5 nuke plants with 5-7 towers each in & close to the areas of Moscow we were in.
More nuke stacks
There were many large & beautiful parks in Moscow
There are several mosques in Moscow, but most structures, like this one, are Russian Orthodox buildings.
Shopping centers are all multilevel structures
I took this picture, thinking it was funny, not realizing how true it is! You have to be constantly aware of traffic because they will drive on the sidewalk & hit you!!
A beautiful building, abandoned
Memorial of some type
Yay!!! We made it to SVO, got our baggage checked & now we're trying to wake up!!! lol That's DH on the left & his boss on the right.
That's all today folks, got fire defense items to handle... 
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