I have to start with an apology to all of you who were looking for updates while I was in Moscow.  I thinking you could follow the gist of what was going on from Facebook.  I will catch up, and attempt to recap my experiences and adventures here in the coming days.  When we got to Moscow, for some reason my laptop would not connect to the WI-FI in the apartment.  I couldn't figure out what the problem was, and I simply didn't have the time to deal with it as events unfolded....