Moscow - Hotel Ismailovo Delta

On New Year's Day we drove back into Moscow and met the other teams at the Hotel Ismailovo Delta. We had quite a time exchanging stories about the different orphanages we had visited.

The hotel was built for the Olympics in Moscow (the one that the U.S. didn't participate in); it's not first class but it had all the amenities we needed. The picture above was taken in the lobby as our group sat and waited for our tour bus to show up one morning. We stayed two to a room; we had key cards to get into the secure hallways and our rooms. We were on the American plan which included breakfast in the mornings. They had a buffet line and there was always something that I wanted to eat. There were always boiled and scrambled eggs, toast (several different kinds of bread), kashi (a kind of oatmeal/cream of wheat cereal), breakfast meats, juices, coffee, tea (of course!) and broccoli (what isn't served for dinner the night before winds up on the breakfast buffet!).