Hello from Weisbaden!

Instead of spending the whole day in Frankfurt waiting for our flight to Novosibirsk in a hotel asleep we hopped a train from Frankfurt Int'l Airport and headed to Weisbaden for lunch. It was fun. The boys loved it. Mom did too. Here's a picture of them in front of the train station there. Being that my German is not that great I bought the wrong kind of tickets from the auto ticket machine. We were caught with them on board and the fine was 40 euro per person. Ouch. The guy could see I was sincere in my mistake so he waived the fee. 160 euro is about what I make in half a month so I'm glad that was not part of our Germany experience.

When we got back to Frankfurt we went and slept half the day. Here's an exciting picture of that (Benja makes a very uncomfortable bed mate).

That evening it was back on the plane for our 7 hour flight from Frankfurt to Novosibirsk. S7 Airlines has recently come into the 21st century with some Airbus aircraft and we got to fly on one of those. I had an exit row seat which was as good as First Class in my book. What do you think about lime green livery of S7? Catchy in a disturbing sorta way I think...

When we got to our flat Benja and Nate played with Oxcana (world's greatest nanny and an amazing friend of our family) for a few hours and then this was the result from about 2 p.m. till 8 p.m.

So, we're here, we're happy (missing Traci, Aidan and Anna a lot though), we're resting and looking forwards to the weeks ahead.