Our hotel is in the north of the city. The rooms are surprisingly modern and comfy. Everyone is resting and waiting to go to dinner.

It took us about 2 hours to get to the hotel - 8 miles from the airport! This is typical Friday afternoon traffic.

Loading the luggage on to the bus.

Going through passport control, checking our Russian visas.

The kids are very excited and waited patiently.

We're off!! It was a long ride to the airport but we arrived and checked in with no problem.