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We were due to take off from Novokuznetsk. Anybody tha has ever been there knows the airport is very small, and not really up to date, at least by American standards. We knew what the weather was supposed to belike, but didn't have any thoughts as to flight problems. We were ready to leave our non-English speaking hotel, when our translator told us that the flight was delayed. We went to the airport anyway, and when we got there, we found out the airport was closed, no flights in or out.
We are in Siberia, with a 14 month old that doesn't understand a word we are saying, and we are due at the Embassy in Moscow at 11:00 the next morning, to get the paperwork so we can leave the country.
The airline finally decides to bus everybody from Novokuznetsk to Novosibirsk. The thought of spending 4 hours on a bus, with no translators, and 2 toddlers didn't interest us at all. Our translator said that she would hire a driver to take us the 4+ hours to where our fight was going to be taking off from.
After a VERY adventurous drive through the Siberian countryside with a driver that spoke NO English at all, we finally made it to the airport.
The flight was uneventful, in fact our new son actually slept on that plane ride. When we got to Moscow, 7 hours late, we found out our agency switched hotels on us, and were even trying to switch our flight home to Monday instead of Thursday, and I do not mean 3 days earlier. But, that of course, is another story.
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