MOSCOW AND HOLDING

GREETINGS FROM MOSCOW...TOOK OFF FROM PARIS RIGHT ON TIME AT 8AM LOCAL TIME..EXPECTED A 2:15 FLIGHT TO WARSAW..ONE HOUR ON THE GROUND...AND A 2:00 HOUR FLIGHT TO MOSCOW...SO WHY DID WE ARRIVE IN MOSCOW AT 10PM...WELL THE FLIGHT TO WARSAW WAS UNEVENTFUL..WHEN WE LANDED OUR FARIS CO. AGENT SAID I HAD TO CALL UNIVERSAL IMMEDIATELY WHICH I DID TO FIND OUT THAT WE COULD NOT LAND AT VUKNOVO AIRPORT IN MOSCOW FOR UNDEFINED REASONS....WE HAD ALL PERMISSIONS AND PERMITS FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION BUT ARGUMENT WAS TO NO AVAIL..THE GOOD NEWS WAS THAT I WOULD RECEIVE A NEW PERMIT TO LAND AT DONOVOOO AIRPORT NEAR MOSCOW AND SINCE THEY HAD ASKED FOR THE CHANGE IT WOULD ONLY TAKE 20 MINUTES....7 HOURS LATER AFTER WE CONVINCED BELARUS THAT IT WOULD BE THE SAME ROUTE AND WHY SHOULD THEY CARE SINCE I HAD AN OVERFLY PERMIT AND WOULD NOT BE LANDING IN THEIR NATION AND CONVINCED THE RUSSIAN THAT I WAS NOT GARY POWERS BROTHER ...WE TOOK OFF AND HAD A FINE FLIGHT TO MOSCOW AIRPORT UUDD....SINCE WE DID NOT GET TO THE HOTEL UNTIL 1AM WE ARE GOING TO STAY FRI NITE..IT IS 3:47PM THURS IN CAL AS I WRITE THIS AND 2:47 AM FRIDAY IN MOSCOW....WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF BEING WITH MEGAN SEVERAL TIMES IN MOSCOW..SHE LOVED THIS CITY AND THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE AND SO DO I...BRANDEN TOO..HE IS THE ULTIMATE GENTLEMEN IN CONTRAST TO HIS DAD...WE HAD EVERYONE AT THE AIRPORT COME AND SEE B, TAKE A PICTURE WITH HIM INCLUDING THE RICHEST MAN IN ISREAL WHO WAS ON HIS WAY MOSCOW-KAZAKSTAN.....HOPE ALL ARE WELL AND ENJOYING THE SUMMER...SATURDAY MY TIME WE FKY TO YEKERENGBURG THEN OVERNITE IN NOVOSBRISK....B SAYS HI TO ALL. SENDING PICS BY BLOG.....F&B