Strange Days Indeed

Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming about how nice it would be to take a trip to Russia in the middle of winter? Or, have you ever contemplated how rich you might be if you had a nickel for every time you thought, "wouldn't it be fun to spend Christmas in Moscow this year?"

If you answered no to these questions, you can likely appreciate just how strange things have been around the Marker house recently. As Lennon (John, that is) once said, "Nobody told me there'd be days like these. Strange days indeed. Quite perculiar, Mama."

It now looks like we will travel back sometime in January to bring Bo and Ellie home with us. Hopefully we'll go back sooner than later, but the Russian people take the whole first week of January off to celebrate the New Year. Any other year, we would commend them for taking so much time off. This year, we'd just as soon they get back to work.

Talk to you soon.