Keeping in the celebration mode of things out here, Tuesday was the last day for our friends from SpaceQuest, or as I like to call them, SpaceGhost. They laugh everytime I use that term. It doesn't really translate in Russian. I say Spaceghost at a meeting and all of us crazy americansky's laugh, then it is translated and well, needless to say, the just nod their heads. Ahhh, the language barrier when it comes to humor. Doesn't seem to be a language barrier when it comes to wodka tho. Tuesday night, LOTS of wodka flowing. These peeps out here toast EVERYTHING. "Its a day that ends in Y!!!...woohoooo...nastrovia!!!!!...drink drink drink!! I can honestly say that I believe I have had more wodka in the 2 plus weeks that I have been here, than I did in my entire LIFE!!! And somehow, I missed breakfast on Wednesday. Must have over slept. Thats Dino Lorenzini, the president of spaceghost on the right, and Glenn Richardson, the software geekhead who makes our spacecraft work. Dang he is good at what he does. As are the rest of spaceghost. Glad they are onboard. As for this evening...sheesh...first the champagne (note the abundance of filled glasses in the pic), then of course...WODKA for all!!!...the four in the pic, lower left is Uri Srgvhchanovskyvich (actually i doan know his last name), clockwise, Sergei Somethingovich, and then the dark hair guy is the one who calls me Big Mike (in a Russian accent it is kinda funny) is Alexandar Vouron, (he's naughty) but he is also the big cheese, the head guy at Yushnoy, the provider of the rocket. He is avery powerful man out here, and he is the main culprit for me missing breakfast Wednesday morning, and Thursday, but that is another story. And then the other is Yvgenyi Whatshisnamesky. He runs the communications side of things out here for Kosmotros. They are like our Nasa. Space operations for the country. The other pic is two of the chiefs out here, Mr. Bernstein to the left, who runs the operations here at the hotel and Vladislav Solovey, he is the head of Space op's for Kosmotros. Two big whigs that both seem to appreciate us americansky's. It took a few days, Mr. Bernstein in particular, but we get along great now. Maybe its the way I drink wodka, they just chuckle when I make faces. Had a great sendoff for the spaceghost guys. They sure like to party out here.