Our arrival and adjustments

Kala, Tebow, and I arrived in Moscow, Russia on March 24, 2011.  Without getting into unneeded details we both work for a company called PAE at the U.S. Embassy here in Moscow.  Work is good and life here is shall we say "different".  We have gone from small-town living in Titusville, Fl. to the biggest city in Europe with a population of around 12 million legal people...around 17 million including commuters and illegals.  We live just outside of the city limits in a little gated community called "Rosinka"...which either means a small group of birch trees or dew drop I have heard both.  The biggest difference for us aside from the language and cultural barriers is not having a car.  Here, we have to rely on public transportation, which isn't always very reliable, and coworkers who have cars.  There are buses that come to the complex we live in, and the schedule isn't very convenient; but they take us into Mitino where there is a metro station (subway). 

Once on the Metro we can get pretty much anywhere we need to go, and if need be there are city buses, trolleys, marshtrukas (mini-bus) and taxi cabs.  It's different but we are now used to it, and we have never walked so much in our lives.  Other than the transportation, the weather is much different than in Florida.  When we first arrived in late March there was about 3-4 feet of snow still on the ground, but the summer here is fantastic. It is currently September (I know, I know, I am a little late in getting started) and the weather is just begining to turn back to winter.  We have seen many amazing things here in Moscow which we will have to post about later.