Can you return the gifts? We took cash, inserted into photo cards I made at Shutterfly. Very well received, and took up no suitcase room.
We also took a suitcase of snacks from Costco. With the price of food in Moscow - whew, that saved us some bucks! On the trip home, of course, it was then filled with souvenirs.
We packed very lightly on trip #2 - everything had to go w/everything else. And it all had to be handwashable (other than Keith's suit.) We took Woolite and washed clothes in the hotel bathtub. We ironed clothing articles in the room to help them dry more quickly. We looked like the Beverly Hillbillies, but with the price of laundry service, I flat did not care.
Becky
The Woodworth Family in Beautiful San Antonio TX