"There's No Place Like Home" or at least nothing like being in our home country...

We finally made it back to the U.S. after three security checkpoints, three attempts to get our tickets at the wrong counter, immigration and customs (and that was only in the Moscow airport).  We had a big debate in the Moscow airport about whether or not we needed to declare Mom's balalaika - the answer was a resounding "No" as the customs agent just about laughed us through.  A chaotic boarding, 11 hour flight, three inedible meals, four inflight movies, and more than one crying baby later we arrived at JFK!  All joking aside - pretty smooth process getting back to the U.S. and we were both more than content to be able to sit for 11 hours.

Mom's attempt to take a picture of Greenland from the plane 

We've now been trying to keep ourselves awake in a cafeteria at JFK for the past few hours and still have a few hours to go.  The last thing we want to do is sleep through our connections.

See you all soon - if not we're probably still stuck at JFK :)