| Whenever you go back home, you have a lot of people to see. I had a lot of fun with Kamron, Leyla's cousin, who is in college. Leyla also got to see several friends including Natasha, Sieva, and Valida. We saw Natasha a few times, and got to read the magazine she and her husband started: the Caspian Business Integration Journal. We also had tea with a cousin of Leyla's mom, Totya Annetta, and several people from her old neighborhood. | ||
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It's still hard to think back on our trip without remembering the
night in the Baku airport. It wasn't the worst travel experience
ever, but it had some dramatic scenes of confrontation between the
vocal and eloquently frustrated passengers and the harassed airline
staff. We had all hoped to leave Baku at 4:30pm on Sunday and get in
to Moscow just a couple hours later, but instead most of us got
rebooked to the 6:30am flight Monday morning, and even that was
delayed an hour or so (see picture). Some of the more vocal
passengers seemed to be businessmen who were going to be missing
Monday morning meetings, and they didn't seem to get any sleep. I was
very trusting, reasoning that if we were on the list for the 6:30
flight I could pass the intervening hours trying to get some sleep.
They seemed to sit up all night, bitterly discussing the situation,
ready to leap to their feet the moment an airline employee entered the
waiting area and get in his face to find out when are we going to
leave. Fortunately, we did eventually leave the runway and enter the
Russian Federation.
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