Back to Hotel Hell

Friday night, November 24

After our emotional meeting with little Katia, Tanya, our translator and Slava, our driver took us back to the hotel and dropped us off. We attempted to ask for more towels via our little translation book and thought the staff understood us, but hours later when no towels showed up, we just gave up. Neither of us felt like eating the food at the restaurant and since we didn't have our translator with us this evening, we really didn't want to attempt ordering ourselves, so we settled on Special K bars, Hershey kisses and animal crackers. We tried watching a dvd that I had brought, but we were both so tired with the time change (16 hours ahead of Dallas time), we finally just went to sleep.

The weather in Biro is much colder than in Moscow, but it is clear and dry. The high temperature is about 15 degrees F. and -5 degrees for the low. Our room is kind of chilly as they only have piped in heat and the insulation is pathetic, you can practically feel the cold air blowing in thru the windows.