Arrive at Sheremetyevo 1 via Alexi's rental car turned cab for 20 bucks... Gawd, why did this guy bring so much @#$ with him to Novosibirsk??? Fast forward... Wait for 6 hours for flight to novosibirsk. Buy something at SH1 that looks like shaslik... hmmm... 10 bucks and a beer. Oh SHT. This is FISH! I hate this stinking crap! Throw fish in trash, keep beer. Get on plane to Novosibirsk finally, a pig-tank IL29 I think it was. No leg room, but the people are happy. What? No vodka on this flight?
We get into Novosibirsk at 5:30AM. Getting off the bus from the plane going to baggage R us... I see Lena off to the side where the rest of the waiting pick ups are. Hunh?
Dam. Who are you? You can't be the same woman that I've been writing and talking to can you? What happened? JHC! She cut her hair again! ok ok... it's ok... stow it man, you got time...
I really was happy to see her, just slightly disappointed because at that moment when I got off the plane, she had the look of warmed over death. As if she was waiting to see some 300 pound 5' overweight Danny Devito dude to get off the plane and say she was ugly or something. And she had 3 roses for me... I was immediately touched by this.
A quick hug and a short kiss and we go for my bag on the horse drawn baggage carousel. (Just kidding).
Alright, we're waiting for baggage to get here from the plane, and we're very tight with each other... holding hands, hugging constantly as if we were married already and hadn't seen each other in a long time. Igor, her brother is waiting outside to take us to the apartment that Lena had rented. Man, people talk about jet lag on trips like this, but I'm simply tired. No sleep... 100 percent anticipation, a kid to deal with all the way over the ocean, and now... Lena. I don't care. We get my bags and head off to where Igor and Irina are very happy to see me, (yeah man, check me out! I actually showed up!!), Lena and I climb into the back seat of their Lada... off Igor drives like a maniac into town.
Lena and I are sitting with our backs to the right side of the car.... I'm against the door, and she's leaning against me and I'm holding her, and we're having short quiet conversation... Don't know what's wrong with my hand but it slips over on Lena's right knee and my mind is going crazy. Wow... this girl's cute, and she can't weigh more than 105... and she's got a brain to boot. With my hand on her knee, Elena says in english very loudly... "What do you do???"
Aghhh!!! (to my embarrasment!) "I don't know Lena!"
haha! I laugh it off and tell her that she's beautiful and hard for me to resist. (this was quite a strange, and funny pregnant pause).
Finally, we make it to our apartment... and I can't wait to get inside! Lena maintains her composure much better than I do, and I respect it, I have no choice. After going through what seems like a wooden vault set of doors, I look around the apartment, stash my two bags, and Lena shows me the gifts that she got for me... two russian military watches, a crystal statuette of "Elena", two t-shirts with our pictures and names on them... OMG.... this apartment? wow! I'm shocked at everything... what more could I ask for?
I hold Elena close to me and give her a nice kiss then uh oh....
Things start flying and she takes over... Oh man. I've been had! Man if this is a dream do NOT wake me up or I will KILL YOU!!
I had no idea what I was in for.... Here I had been writing to what I thought was my own loving "Doctor Laura" of sorts in her own right, quite conservative, and I get something that... ummm we wouldn't be legal in Alabama.
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