On Our Way

Well, we made it to D.C.! There was heavy traffic almost all the way from Charleston to Falls Church but we made it safely to Missy's house. We took our time and let everybody else do silly things along the way. Leon and Missy's daughter and son-in-law came over for dinner as well as Charlie, the neighbor from across the street. After a wonderful dinner of Christmas leftovers (ham, turkey, dressing and all the fixings!) we went for a drive to see the Christmas lights on the Mall (including the National Christmas Tree), in Georgetown and in Old Town Alexandria. Beautiful! We get to sleep in a little in the morning and then Missy will drive us over to Dulles in time to meet the rest of the group at 2:00 p.m.

I hope I'll be blogging from Moscow after January 1!
Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday - I know I did. I can't believe I've procrastinated this long to get back to blogging, but here I am, packed and ready to leave for D.C. in the morning! My roomie, Jan Blount, and I will drive to my friend Missy's in Falls Church, Virginia tomorrow. Missy and her husband are taking us in tomorrow night and maybe giving us the grand tour of all the holiday lights around Washington. On Friday, they will get us to Dulles International Airport to meet up with the rest of the group around 2:00p.m. ; our flight leaves at 4:55. This year we are flying Air France direct from D.C. to Paris and then Paris to Moscow. I think it will be about 1:00 p.m. local time when we arrive in Moscow on Saturday. There is an eight hour time difference between Moscow and Eastern Standard Time.

I haven't been very good about telling you about my preparations this year but I hope to do better while I'm in Moscow and about sharing pictures when I get back. I bought four more gig of memory cards for my camera so I should be able to take plenty of pictures!