Got It!!! (the russian visa)

After getting up early today and being held up on the bus by an aptartment fire and a huge line at the Russian Embassy, and then a 6 hour wait..............we finally get approved for our Russian visas!!! So now we are online trying to book flights for tomorrow or the next day from Moscow to Krasnodar. We are pretty stoked. Finally, after leaving Mozambique on the 9th it finally seems like Russia is a definite. Thanks for your prayers everyone, but don't stop now cause we are only just beginning our descent into Russia.

London has been extremely expensive but incredibly amusing. It seems a great (but expensive!!!) city. Last night we went with Katherine and met Analee, Laura, and Cassandra (3 girls from Holy Given 1) at a great food place and had supper. It was an awesome time and amazing food. Anyways, I'll update again hopefully from Moscow!

London, England(?)

So. London?, you say? Indeed. We got wind of a cheap flight outta Nairobi thursday night to London, and since everyone else got their visas outta London, we decided to try too. We fly to London and land at Heathrow at 6am. We do some stuff and take the subway to the Russian Embassy to learn we can't get an application there, we have to specially download and fill it out from the website. We run down to a printing store who lets us get online and we do our business and run back to the embassy; but wait...........we're 4 minutes after noon and the embassy is closed and won't answer the door!!! So we miss out by 4 minutes! Then Jess gets us a CRAZY contact whom I refuse to stay with. So we get a hostel for a reasonable(?!) $40US/night!! WHAT?! We stay there and the next day I call Katherine Warnock (Lolli) and arrange for us to stay with her and her husband Daniel. THANK YOU JESUS!!! They rock!

So we are hanging out in London for the weekend and takin in the sights. London isnt the cheapest place I've ever been but neither is Pemba, or Nairobi, for that matter. It's pretty crazy. It's all good though. Hopefully we can get our visas tomorrow (monday) morning and fly from London to Moscow tomorrow night. Keep praying everybody, cause this is crazy!