Eight fifteen pm and not dark yet. Everyone is starting to act manic with so much light. The Moscow sun takes forever to go down. In Niger we'd go out to the sand dunes to watch the sunset, and we'd have to race to our cars as soon at the sun set; so close to the equator, it was like a door closing, the sun went down and that instant, it was DARK. In Niger, the sun rose and set every day of the year between 6 and 7, even in December the kids went to school in the morning in shorts with the sun in the sky. So out at the sand dunes we'd run, no street lights or ambient light to find the cars or to prevent you from driving off the cliffs off the dunes. Here, it's night time, but light, and the spring twilight is lasting FOREVER. Kind of freaking me out.
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I think this sort of explains the Northern European Russian national character!
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For me it freaks me out when it never changes like in Costa Rica always the same, sun sets BAM dark, ground hog. I’m sure I can get use to it, love those tropics, in winter the cold season you just have to wear your socks.
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Ground hog day (the movie)
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I’m coming to visit my daughter for American Mother’s Day and Russian Victory Day! A spur-of-the-moment trip with mutual friends. Can’t wait until I step on the plane at JFK.
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JB was just commenting last night when we went out to dinner that it was still light at 8:30pm. SPRING AT LAST! The eve of Easter, full of daffodils and light! Signed JB
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I remember this from being in Moscow….the light lingered SO long….
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twenty-something years of "what have you been up to?" 
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