The longest day

I arose on this wonderful Sunday morning at 3am. I went to bed at 1am after packing… and I think I slept for maybe 2 hours. The morning started off with several highlights. Amy called first thing and we were able to talk just before I got the call that Zhanna and Sasha were on their way to pick me up in the taxi.

And we're off! Oh, and I had melon for breakfast… mmm. We don't have this melon in America. It's called Dinya. It's delicious.

So everything went great with getting me to St. Petersburg. The flight was on time (in fact I got there pretty early in the morning). The food on the plane was minimal, but a nice supplement to the Dinya (melon).

So I'll give you the quick overview of the day in St. Petersburg and more details about interesting stuff in additional entries.

Arrival + 2.5 hours	Finding where to buy the bus ticket
1 hour	Buying the bus ticket
2 hours	Finding internet to email all that I made it
8 hours	Waiting and exploring (broken into several chunks call it recon if you will)
2 hours	Visiting really cool sites in St. Petersburg
1 hour	Picking up my baggage
7 hours	Bus to Estonia
Day transition here somewhere
2 hours	Waiting for luggage holding to open
forever	waiting to go to the bathroom because I didn't have a small enough bill to pay
2 hours	Finding the center of Tallinn to wait for information to open
3 hours	Searching for a place to live

And now I have a place to live, internet access, a rough idea of where I am in the city, a book about the city, and plenty of items to keep me focused on Him and Russian studies.

Please please please please keep pr-ying that my invitation comes quickly. In order to make my flight home, I need to get my visa by this Friday (unless there's some bigger miracle planned). Thanks