One Woman's Story

Well, he says I only have 30 minutes of battery so this is a condensed version. All in all a fair trip. The ride to JFK was good. From there on it was kind of down hill. Finding the gate in JFK was an adventure and we had to go through security for second time since leaving on our trip. It was a guy yelling all chargers electronics in a separate bin, take off coats, shoes, belts etc. Very crowded loud and noisy. We had to get new boarding passes at aeroflot checkin desk before we could even go through security. (We didn’t realize till we got to Greece they kept our luggage claim checks!) Finally at the gate there were people all around and two very loud noisy little boys running everywhere and Mom and Dad talking to them as they chased them. Not a good omen of what was to come.

After getting on the plane, 10 seats across, we were in the second section where there were about 100 seats. A large majority was occupied by a contingent of Jewish people with about 10 kids ranging in age from 6 weeks to 4 years and the 2 little boys from out in waiting area where there too, These children were all extremely unmannered , very loud, they did not cry they screeched like banshees, for 8 hours non stop. No sleep was had by us. Their parents were as poorly behaved and illmannered as the kids.

Arriving at Moscow we were glad to be rid of all of them. Again we were on a long jouney to our gate preceded by, you guessed it another security, even though we were in the same terminal. Imagine our surprise to see the same two little boys waitibg with us at our gate. Still running at top speed and Mom and dad chased them. These boys each had a pacifier in the mouth, one was about 4 and the other 2. Fortunately this time on the smaller plane they were at the rear and we were at the front.

Now thr adventure on this aeroflot flight, it is snowing and runways are snow covered and we have to wait an hour on board while our plane is deiced. It caused a back up in take off so we were on the ground about an hour before flying off.

Now comes the good part, all I have to say is OJ scores one and Bonnie scores none. The juice spilled all over my pants, shoes, sweater and tray. After cleaning it up with your dad’s hankie (which got put in the trash) and my pack of kleenex and some napkins I was so disturbed I did not eat the breakfast offered. The flight was about 4 hours and thankfull about 2 hours before landing I fell asleep. On landing again a trek to find our baggage (at this time remembering our baggage receipts were still in JFK) we kept going.

Headed to passoort control, got stamped after about 30 minute wait we found the baggage carasole and there along with 2 other lonely bags were ours going around and around. We happily retrieved them and headed out the door to find Stephanos with our name on a sign .