Spartans In Russia: 1

August 28th - 30th - Vancouver-Frankfurt-Moscow-Sochi

The journey to Russia has been a long and interesting one. The trip began 8:40pm...wait 9:10pm...wait 9:30pm on August 28th. Delays at the beginning...yikes. We took a quick one hour flight to Calgary then had a 45 minute layover. We like to call that portion of the trip baby cries, Spartans endure. After leaving Calgary the 11 hour flight to Frankfurt Germany began. After a few hour layover and a Happy McBacon and Nuerberger later we were off for Moscow. We arrived in Moscow at 4:30am on August 30th...not sure what happened to August 29th but maybe we will find that day sometime down the road. A few hours in Moscow, one bad breakfast and another quick flight and we landed in Sochi. What we saw when we landed made it all worth it. Most of us were thinking of Russia much like people think of Canada, snow, cold and harsh landscape. Maybe the rest of Russia is like that, we will see, but Sochi is most definately not. We are in a tropical paradise here. We are staying a beach resort right on the Black Sea. It is 29-35 degrees daily and it could not be more beautiful.

Go Spartans!!!