After breakfast, Steve asks me if I am interested in asking the hotel about the baby suite. We passed this room yesterday afternoon while we were on our way to ours and it said that above the door in wooden letters. I told him yes and he went down to check it out. We must be nuts. We have just sort of exploded in this room and now we're going to move down the hall. He comes back and tells me that it's awesome. The kids are napping so I tell him after they wake up we can move. I in the mean time, start stuffing crap back into our bags. We get all the stuff, the kids wake up and we move down the hall. I am amazed when I walk through the door. It's absolutely wonderful in there. I am so glad that Steve checked into it. Here are a few photos:
As you can see, this room just made staying in a hotel that much better. I have to admitt that the Marriott rocked. They may be on the bit expensive side but it was worth it. They took such good care of us. Also if you look at the photos, you can see there is a playpen in the middle of the room. We moved it there so we could fit the portable crib in there for Brooke. We put Kyle in the wooden crib. Steve coined the playpen, "thunder dome." We would put both kids in there and whatever toy Kyle had, Brooke would steal it from him. She'd be in there just stomping all over him. Poor guy. If that doesn't make him want to get up and crawl, I don't know what would.
Later on, we put a phone call into Ann & Dave today to see how they are doing. We are planning on walking down to their hotel later on today. Ann gives me a call back and apparently, Andrei has arranged for them to have a sitter so they can get some sleep. They have been having a time of it so Ann takes them up on the offer. I tell her to call me when she's up and ready for us to come down. We head down around a little before 4pm. It takes us about an hour to get there. The kids do really well in their carriers. Auntie Erin gave them some snow hats so we had to take a picture of them with them on for her.
We make it down to their hotel but it took us a little bit. We got a little bit detoured. It's really hard to read a map with street names that you can't read for the life of you. We stopped to ask some police/security men. They pointed and we figured we were headed in the right direction. As we were walking, these 2 grandma like ladies smiled at the children. I turned to them and waived hello from the kids. In English they ask if they are a boy and a girl. We say, "da." They smile and we continue our walk. We are still in our sweatshirts walking along. We pass a really great park with tons of people in it and kids playing on the equipment. Our kids are a little to young. It is still so funny for me to see people drinking beer out of bottles in the park or just plain walking down the streets.
We make it down to the Marriott Courtyard and Ann brings us up to the room. We brought them some more diapers and returned her mink hat that she bought and had forgotten in Orenburg. We stay and visit for an hour or so. They are in the process of packing up as they are leaving for home tomorrow. Still envious of this as we are STILL here until Wednesday. We let the kids play a bit and Dave is nice enough to let me have a cup of tea. This cold is still really kicking my ass. I'm sure running around in a sweatshirt doesn't help any but all the buildings are so hot and then walking around like a kangaroo with a baby in your pouch, well that keeps you warm too.
We take off for home a little after 6pm. We have only eaten breakfast today so we need to grab some dinner on the way home. We are hoping to stop at the McDonald's and eat super fast. We don't want to go and sit down anywhere. Not with the kids and especially not knowing if they will have highchairs. We are looking for fast. We spot the McDonald's and take a little look. I can't believe how much busier the streets are on this trip than the last. Then again, it's not snowing and -11C. It's also a Saturday night on Tyverskaya Street and the McDonald's is PACKED! We decided to do something else. From all of the reading that I did before hand, I found a gentleman who just loved this hot dog like stand. They are everywhere on the streets. If you look at it, it looks like Crapdogs. We make that executive decision and eat there. We sit down and eat on this side wall. Luckily, both kids are out asleep since they didn't really get much of an afternoon nap. We chow down so we can head back home before it gets much darker. We are back a little after 7pm and the kids are pretty tired. Kyle actually goes to bed at 7:30pm and Brooke goes down shortly after that. Steve is not far off from them and I stay up to update this blog. Guess I should get to bed and try and kick this cold. Wishing I would have brought more cold medicine and different types. WOW! What an exciting Saturday night we just had. The life of new parents! I can tell you that we are enjoying the heck out of it.
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