I met 2007 at the airport.
Did I intend to meet anyone there in the night? - No.
Did I plan to fly far away from Moscow? - No.
Did I forget about the-most-important-celebration-of-the-year? Not at all :)
It was my mother who was so anxious to find out - WHAT is happening at the airport during the New Year night.
And it was me who was away from parents' house for more than half a year, and so much willing to be with them during this magic night, therefore didn't care about the place.
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We came to Domodedovo (international airport, the closest one to my home town) half an hour before midnight.
Almost no one there :)
A sudden announcement: "Dear passengers, aircraft XX with flight number XXX from Egypt has just landed in international airport Domodedovo..."
A sudden announcement: "Dear passengers, aircraft XX with flight number XXX from Egypt has just landed in international airport Domodedovo..."
"If someone asks us who we are and where we are going, lets tell them that we are meeting our lovely relatives coming from Egypt" - my idea seems to be sensible :)
Yet people here don't care much about crazy Podolsk citizens.
Everyone has its own deals and thoughts:
- waitress in a cafe, regretting for a misfortune to work in a new year night... probably she has a boyfriend who has to be alone or with friends, but not with her... because she is here at the cafe serving visitors...
- poor passengers waiting for a flight to Ashkhabad (Turkmen airlines), which is delayed for 4 hours...
- a group of sleeping people spending night in the airport before their 6am flight to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (in some hours they will start a cross over 1/6 part of the world...)
... And near all these scenes... my family and me drinking coffee with cheesecake, taking pictures and laughing as we are aliens from Mars :)
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Meanwhile it's getting to 23.59. The most important moment, the culmination of a trip, the beginning of the year!!!
Meanwhile it's getting to 23.59. The most important moment, the culmination of a trip, the beginning of the year!!!
What will they (=airport personnel) wish to their guests?!
"Dear guests, we congratulate You with a New Year of 2007! ... We wish you happiness, cosiness and nice flights with Domodedovo company" (actually in Russian it was even funnier: "уюта и приятных полетов с компанией Домодедово")
I wonder how these two things could go together :))) look, guys, your clients are waiting for 4 hours to get a flight which is delayed and you are wishing us cosiness with your company?!
I am just kidding - you can't imagine how much I was grateful to these greetings of a nice woman on the airport radio :)
... The passengers who had been sleeping suddenly woke up ...
... Clients of Turkmen airlines switched on a TV (yes, they a mini-TV set with them!!) listening to New Year speeches of a President (Which country? :)
... Male young waiter from another cafe opened a bottle of champagne and, screaming and rushing around, friendly embraced the waitress from our cafe ...
... We clinked glasses of filter-coffee, ate up the desserts and went home :)
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While going to the exit my brother and me took some pictures...
Parents couldn't help asking: "Why are there so few people in the airport??"
My brother: "Mom, why for a normal person to go here in the NEW YEAR?"
I am smiling and thinking - WHY not? :)
I am smiling and thinking - WHY not? :)
2 comments:
This is the most original way to spend NY I've EVER heard of :)))
That's so cool! I wish I have been one more passenger to Ashgabat to join you that night. Of course, they listened to Putin. Surprisingly, but we still consider Russia our country.
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