Woke up early again and attended synagogue with Michael who led Passover morning services. There were a few people from the community in attendance there and it was a cute synagogue with a family like community. We then had lunch at Michaels, his wife, Olga, made the food and were too tired to attend the Hermitage Museum so we opted to go shopping for souvenirs instead. We knew we would have time for the Museum at another point. The afternoon came and went and we headed to the airport to fly to Murmansk.

We arrived into Murmansk at 10:30 p.m. and it was still light out with a ton of snow on the ground. It looked as I had imagined it to, with barren trees and snow covering the ground. We could not believe how light it was at 10:30 at night and we had to take pictures and gasp for moments after we landed about it. We met the director of the community, Yuli, at the one gate airport. He did not speak one word of English which was not a surprise since we were in such a small town, very northern Russia and we were thankful Zina was with us. We drove one hour from the airport to the center of town where our hotel was. The drive was beautiful, the area was desolate and quiet with snow. Our hotel really was in the center of town, even though it looked like a small area, there are a lot of people that live in Murmansk. Around 11:30 when we went to eat dinner at the hotel the sun was just beginning to set and we still were amazed about that. The food was yuck! We were so tired that at that point it did not much matter we could not wait to be horizontal and close our eyes to go to sleep.