Thursday, June 21, 2018

Russia Day 1 (St. Petersburg, Russia): Surprisingly Short Flights, The World Cup and Settling In


I’m in Russia guys!

Today wasn’t a very interesting travel day so this is going to be a pretty short blog entry. We started out at the Sacramento International Airport and took a super quick flight out to San Francisco before heading out to Frankfurt, Germany. This was the shortest flight I’ve ever been on… It was over before I knew it! After we made it to Frankfurt we headed out on our last leg of our trip to St. Petersburg, Russia. 

One of the biggest sporting events in the world, The World Cup, is going on right now and we're in the middle of it! We caught bits and pieces of the action as we made our way between terminals. 

When we arrived at our dock we boarded our ship, ate and unpacked. Eating always seems to be the first thing we do when we arrive. The ship we’re on is smaller than the ones we normally travel on so we won’t have access to as many amenities as we did on our other trips. This trip is also a little longer than trips we normally take so we had to pack a little heavier. It was a challenge to get everything into one suitcase. We were allotted two suitcases but traveling with more than one piece of luggage makes it significantly harder to get around.

After we settled in we went to a briefing about the excursions were taking and the other available excursions. The format of this trip is very similar to the format of the China trip I took. On most of the days we have a morning excursion and an evening excursion booked which will keep us very busy.

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