My first post from SF California.

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Hi there,
It took me a while to get down to writing this post. So first, we had to oversleep our long (17 hours) flight from Moscow to SF. Second, the power supply here is different from that of Russia and we had to buy special adaptor to recharge our laptop and start using it as Olia has a Mac computer. Now we are more or less settled down and feel more comfortable, but still failed to rent a car for ourselves as Olia and Andy are mostly at work and there is nobody to drive us around. Hopefully, we'll be able to rent a car tomorrow.
Well, the weather here is foggy and windy, which is typical of July in this very spot of California. But there are some sunny spells and we even managed to go to the parks next to Olia's neighbourhood. It's absolutely fabulous there and the view from Olia's balcony is amazing, too. We had Michael and Kelly (his girlfriend reziding in SF) visiting us on Sunday. Michael has become very mature and handsome. The girl is slim and pretty. She's got some Russian blood (her grandfother from Dad's side) so she looks like a Slavic girl. She seems to be shy and calm, but I don't think she is this kind of girl as she is well educated and possibly ambitious.
So my impression was good, the same as of the other members of our family.
Let's keep our fingers crossed for this young couple,....

Love all and everyone of you...

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