Ivan crosses part of Russia

Good morning y'all,
Well, as the pictures may or may not have indicated, we have visited several fields in the last week. Our days continue to be wonderful. It was hard to leave Annette and Karyn but our visa said get going. In Moscow we had a brief but great time. The pictures show Wayne the chef. His curry is worth traveling around the world to eat. Also saw Martin and Alla. We didn't get to see the friends that day but it sounds like all is well. Our short flight to St. Petersburg was good although they wouldn't allow our carry-on ($ 30) to check the extra bag.
Shelley met us in St. P. and we headed to a hotel for the night. We had been told it was a room for two. The clerk said, no, there would be two men in the room with us; made sense as it is a hostel with the bathroom down the hall. Well, lost in translation extra two really meant twenty. It was a quite and comfortable night and we woke up and had a nice cup of coffee and roll before going to meeting.
A wonderful meeting it was. We had looked forward to being with the girls, Shelley and Tama but also Sveta, who we hadn't seen in a couple of years. Also there was Julia, a young recently professing girl and Breanna Wong who has been studying in Hungary. She meets with Jim and Susan Stout some of the time for meeting. What a terrific meeting and day we had before jumping on another jet for Ekaterinbutg.
We are now in Kazakhstan but I think this catches you us to the pictures that went out yesterday with no story.
We do hope that all is well with each of you, we miss you. Love in Him, Ivan and Ivana