The first leg of our trip home today consisted of a 6:00am flight from Krasnodar to Moscow.  The flight went smoothly, and I got to see the most beautiful sunrise of my life.  As we approached Moscow, I could see the perfect sea of clouds below us and the horizon turn into a perfect rainbow spectrum.  A couple of stars were even still visible which added to the beauty.  As the plane turned around to descend, I was no longer looking east, but then I noticed the glow of the Moscow city lights peeking as a faint glow through the clouds.

I should have taken a picture, but alas my camera was in the overhead bin, and the quality of any picture I took would have been dismal anyways.

Once we arrived in Moscow we found out that instead of a 4 hour layover followed by a flight to JFK, our flight had been canceled due to a blizzard in NY.  Luckily we quickly got spots on a flight leaving only 2 hours later than the other one.

There is still one hour until our flight leaves, and I have my fingers crossed that it doesn’t get canceled or delayed!