Last Day In Moscow
November 20, 2009
When we woke Thursday morning I could not believe this was our last day in Moscow. We were going to take our Christmas card picture today so we got the kids all dressed in matching outfits. We ate at the buffet and headed out to Red Square. It started to rain so we decided before snapping the shot we would tour Lenin's tomb. We hired a guide that let us go to the front of the line. We could not take our stroller or camera into the building. They had a place that you could check in your belongings. We did this and then went with our guide. He explained everything and I mean everything. He was a talker. I was loving him until he told me I reminded him of Hillary Clinton. What??????? He was very smart and LOVED his country. I heard him talk to some of the guards and tell them that Kati and Elle were Russian.Kati and Elle will have dual citizenship until they are 18 and can decide themselves.The russians take this seriously. This is why the Bono look alike guy from yesterday was at the Russian embassy registering the girls during our jaunt to Red Square.If we move or have any changes the russian consulate will be notified.
After our tour we took our christmas picture. The sun had come out and it was about 65 degrees. The girls were bundeled up so we had to strip off their snowsuits and hurry up because the russian women will tell you to cover up babies. We had one woman who screamed the babies are cold.We had done the Russia thing of making our girls SWEAT for a week but for our Christmas card we went for it!!! We had a photographer in Red Square take the picture . We only had to wait 10 minuntes and it was done. While we waited a group of Japanese flight attendants came over and wanted to take a picture with all of the kids, They were so funny!! The boys thought this was so hilarious.After the shot we ate pizza took one more trip to the bargain market . Gray was obsessed with the wooden puppets . We ended up buying a puppet for Gray,russian uniform for Sid and a gas mask for Andy. The girls got pretty knit hats and puppets .We then walked back to the hotel to rest and pack. We decided to order room service and hit the sack early. I was not wanting to go to bed because I knew the next day would mean flying across the world with 5 kids!!!!!!!!

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