Except that I've never been here!! I'm in Moscow! I'm spending the next week on the road with POTUS and I promise to blog on a regular basis. See, there will actually be something to say this week! :)
Last night, I had to be extraordinarily un-American and skip the celebrations for our country's birthday and fly to Russia. I did see some fireworks from small Maryland towns when I was driving to Andrews Air Force Base so I felt patriotic for a brief second. Last year, I missed them as well when we were leaving for Japan. But I guess being on a military base and getting ready to travel with POTUS can count for being patriotic. And besides, earlier in the afternoon, I spent several hours doing American things like eating hamburgers and hotdogs and cherry pie and ice cream with great friends!
So I got cozy into row 25 on the plane and took some drugs and slept for most of the way. When we landed, we actually had to go through customs (which is unusual for us!) and I had no problems!! And actually everything looked a little like Iowa to me. But now we're downtown and our hotel is awesome. My view rocks! And we actually stay in the same hotel for three nights. Of course I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep. I might have to take drugs again. We ate breakfast on the plane and one hour later when we got to the hotel, we ate dinner. Of course before we even entered the door, we were offered shots of vodka. Shocking I know. I turned them down because a) I don't drink vodka and b) I had to work as soon as we got here.
Anyway, I'm about to take a walk to Red Square in the rain. I'll take pictures but hopefully it will be sunny tomorrow and the colors will actually show up!!
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