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Tick-tock, tick-tock
Russia, known as the Slavic Motherland. Russia, known as the Bear. Russia, known as CCCP.
We think….Russia, known as “Hurry Up and Wait.”
How many times have you said, “I can’t wait.” Well, if you were here, you sure could. Because there’s often nothing to do except wait.
Yesterday we hurried up….and waited for Julia’s travel documents to be processed at the American Embassy. Today her documents were hurried to the Russian Embassy, where we now wait…wait…wait for them to be sorted, stamped, stapled and stacked before we can leave the country. We’re supposed to retrieve them tomorrow evening, and we’ll be able to leave Thursday morning. We’re still not sure which day we will arrive home. We may or may not have to spend Thursday night in
Dallas (groan.)
When we lounge around a small hotel room with an even smaller but highly energetic six-year-old, well, the view often looks like this.
So sore-shouldered Keith decided we were going sight-seeing, this time along Arbor Street, an eclectic mix of shops, statuary, kiosks and kooks. Arbor Street was once home to the famous Russian poet, Aleksandr Pushkin. Several statues memoralize life and work, including this one of him and his wife, Natalya. “In 1837, falling into greater and greater debt amidst rumors that his wife had started conducting a scandalous affair, Pushkin challenged her alleged lover, Georges d’Anthès, to a duel which left both men injured, Pushkin mortally. He died two days later.” Or, in the immortal words of Mae West, “She done him wrong.”
Julia has one art appreciation criteria – Can it be climbed?
Tomorrow we are sticking close to the hotel room, sorting through laundry (Clean enough to wear home? Did something die in that shirt? Why is it sticking to the hangar?) readying tickets and passports, stuffing plane snacks and “sock” (juice) boxes in our carry-on, etc.
We know we can’t say, “We can’t wait to see Rachel, Lois and Hannah” – because we have to do so.
But Russia – We can sure think it.
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