Last Train Out

We left the camp on Saturday afternoon with the plan to see how things were in Moscow and if they were to bad...possibly trying to go somewhere else on Monday. However, as we drove into the city we realized how bad things really were. We could not see some buildings that we knew we were passing. I started getting a headache and Liam started coughing and wheezing. We knew we needed to get out of Moscow as soon as possible. We got home, packed a few things, and a friend came to drive us to the train station due to the metro being filled with smoke. Tim stood in the long lines and got us tickets on the next available train out. Thankfully there were two tickets on the 1:35am train to St. Petersburg. They were in a 4 person compartment and we had the 2 top bunks. I shared a bunk with Liam...it was not a comfortable ride, but we were so thankful to be getting out of Moscow we didn't care. We heard later that by the next morning train tickets were sold out for the rest of the week and over 100,000 people flew out of the city. We feel so blessed that we were able to get Liam out of the smoke and somewhere safer.

Liam sleeping on the car ride back to Moscow.

Liam hogging our bunk!  This is where we both slept.