Russia/Siberia Trip Details

This will be the 10th year that the W.Va. Volunteers in Mission has taken Christmas to Russian orphans. I was blessed to be able to participate in the 2006-7 and 2007-8 trips. We spent the first three nights in an orphanage and then visited many, many other orphanages in the Moscow region. This year will be a little different. We had the choice of visiting St. Petersburg or Tomsk in Siberia. As much as I would like to see the sights of St. Petersburg, it is possible to visit there via commercial tours if you really want to. It is not so easy to visit deep in Siberia! My roommate on the trip, Jan Blount, and I decided that we wanted to be part of the team that will make the trip to Tomsk. We will fly from D.C. to Moscow and then take another flight on to Tomsk. Moscow is 8 hours east of D.C. and Tomsk is 5 hours east of Moscow, so I will be 13 time zone away from home. We will leave on December 28, 2009 and return on January 8, 2010.