Back In The USSR ...
... You don't know how lucky you are boy. And girl.
We arrived in Novosibirsk this morning, 30 hours after starting our journey from Syracuse. It was a good, bad, odd, fair trip.
Good: The flight from Syracuse to NY was on JetBlue and Fran was able to watch the Food Network the whole way. Too bad the trip was only an hour, she doesn't quite know how to finish the baked Francais Souffle.
Bad: The Aeroflot trip from NY to Moscow. I've never been on a plane with less legroom, and I missed the sign which said "You Must Be This Short To Ride This Ride." I've seen Russians who were taller than 5'5" so I know this isn't a cultural engineering decision at the Aeroflot plane-building factory. In addition, the video wasn't working on the aircraft, so our in-flight entertainment wasn't working -- I was willing to watch a Pauly Shore movie in Russian just to pass the time, but 'Nyet'. Fran also killed a roach that was in our overhead compartment. We're not sure if the roach was:
A) Trying to escape NY any way possible -- how bad is a city when the roaches are leaving the country?
B) Trying to find a seat with more legroom.
C) The Aeroflot light snack which wasn't completely cooked.
Odd: With a 10-hour layover in Moscow, we decided to sleep at a hotel which offered six-hour rates for $60. The hotel lobby was the Ritz-Carlton, but the room itself half the size and quality of a Super 8. The room had two single beds, and in Russia, 'single' must translate to 'toddler' because my feet hung over the edge as if I was crashing at one of Santa's elves homes.
Fair: The Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Novosibirsk. After our Aeroflot flight from NY, this flight had nowhere to go but up (pun intended). Our seats were a bit more comfortable, we moved so that noone was sitting next to us, and there was 2 inches more leg room. Or so it seemed. On Aeroflot flights, the seats have been screwed to the floorboard of the plane in a fairly random fashion, so leg room varies wildly from row to row. The seatfitters must have just eyeballed the distance between each ("Yeah, that looks about right"), just like how I hang photos on the wall.
We arrived in Novosibirsk this morning, 30 hours after starting our journey from Syracuse. It was a good, bad, odd, fair trip.
Good: The flight from Syracuse to NY was on JetBlue and Fran was able to watch the Food Network the whole way. Too bad the trip was only an hour, she doesn't quite know how to finish the baked Francais Souffle.
Bad: The Aeroflot trip from NY to Moscow. I've never been on a plane with less legroom, and I missed the sign which said "You Must Be This Short To Ride This Ride." I've seen Russians who were taller than 5'5" so I know this isn't a cultural engineering decision at the Aeroflot plane-building factory. In addition, the video wasn't working on the aircraft, so our in-flight entertainment wasn't working -- I was willing to watch a Pauly Shore movie in Russian just to pass the time, but 'Nyet'. Fran also killed a roach that was in our overhead compartment. We're not sure if the roach was:
A) Trying to escape NY any way possible -- how bad is a city when the roaches are leaving the country?
B) Trying to find a seat with more legroom.
C) The Aeroflot light snack which wasn't completely cooked.
Odd: With a 10-hour layover in Moscow, we decided to sleep at a hotel which offered six-hour rates for $60. The hotel lobby was the Ritz-Carlton, but the room itself half the size and quality of a Super 8. The room had two single beds, and in Russia, 'single' must translate to 'toddler' because my feet hung over the edge as if I was crashing at one of Santa's elves homes.
Fair: The Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Novosibirsk. After our Aeroflot flight from NY, this flight had nowhere to go but up (pun intended). Our seats were a bit more comfortable, we moved so that noone was sitting next to us, and there was 2 inches more leg room. Or so it seemed. On Aeroflot flights, the seats have been screwed to the floorboard of the plane in a fairly random fashion, so leg room varies wildly from row to row. The seatfitters must have just eyeballed the distance between each ("Yeah, that looks about right"), just like how I hang photos on the wall.
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