Monday night Adelaide time we, Joseph and myself, started our journey to Moscow,  Russia! This was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do as Bianca sobbed uncontrollably and Dominic was a true lil man and got sad, wiping both his eyes with both his hands at the same time but there were no tears as such, and was too cute! We gave them a little parting gift and tbh the BIG GRAVE DIGGER worked for Dom but Bianca knew this was it. We have been very open and honest with them and they have been involved with all of it so they knew it was coming but it didnt make it any easier.

Once we were on the plane it was go time, I was focusing on what was ahead and we soon arrived in Dubai. We had a very long 12 hours in Dubai airport. We ate, looked at every shop,  managed to have a sleep and then we had a back and foot massage before getting on our flight To DME, Moscow. We changed our seats to the back of the plane where we each had the 4 middle seats to ourselves and could have a lie down and a sleep which was fantastic then but means I have been wide awake since 6am here!

Arriving in a different country for the first time is nerve-wracking but when everything is in another language it is hard! When we got off the plane I nearly thought I was going to have to continue by myself… I had been cleared by immigration and spent a good 5-7 minutes anxiously waiting to see Joe emerge from the gates… All ended up well but he was questioned and discussed with supervisors and was thinking he wasnt going to be allowed in!!! But he was and then we spent a good 10 mins filling in customs forms which werent needed and we found our driver Alexander (Alexi) waiting for us and the Russian Dash Cam videos certainly are a true indidcation of the traffic here. We arrived at the Best Western Vega hotel (pic is the view from our room) around midnight Moscow time and here we are wednesday morning now and after breakfast I will be admitted to the hospital AA Maximov, Piragov a place i will call home for the next 29 days.