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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Four hours of me freaking out in Moscow

Normally when traveling I am very calm, cool, and collect. But I swear Russia tested me today. I had a four hour layover in Moscow after my twelve hour flight. I thought this was going to be a time to relax and maybe get a nap in. WRONG. They changed my gate number not once , not twice but THREE TIMES! Everytime it was on the other side of the airport. Now I'm not a runner but when you only have 5 min to get to your gate you're gonna run. I ran from gate 56 to gate 7. Mind you I have a backpack that weighs about 22 lbs and a purse that weighs too much (I didn't weigh it before I left). I go to the first gate to see that there are still people there waiting for Munich but with the language barrier there was no hope. Either try to communicate or make it to the flight. I at least tried... But I booked it across the airport. Mind you I'm also wearing a maxi skirt and flip flops. You would have thought that someone was attacking me. Normally I'm very pale but once I got to the gate I was cherry red. There were people trailing in right behind me with the same look of exhaustion that I was sporting. They check my ticket and we hop on a bus that takes us right outside were I just ran from.....I love flying with Aeroflot but layovers in Moscow are bad. They were announcing gate changes every five minutes. Once I got on the plane I found my seat and a Russain guy asked if he could help me with my bag. I happily threw him my backpack. He almost fell to the floor with how heavy it was. 

I have noticed something by being in Russia. Everyone here is very proud of their country. Whenever they get the chance they ask me how I like Russia. I can't respond with the answer they want because I hadn't left the airport. How does one respond? 
Russian person: (in broken English) so how you like Russia?
Me: um well I thought the Winter Olympics were interesting....

***INTERSTING FACT***
Everything in Aeroflot seems to be sponsored by the olympics.... Or maybe they just liked how it looked and they just kept it. 

ALSO  the only commercial that would play on the airplane is a Ashton Kutcher look alike (Russian actor obviously) milking a goat with a cereal bowl under it. I can't tell you what this commercial is because there were no subtitles but I think it was about goat selling.... I have no clue.  

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