Travel, travel, travel and arrive

After more hours of travel than I care to think about any more our group arrived in Tbilisi. I always take some type of photo in the air for my grandson, so this is the one from my departure from DC.

I don't think there is much that is more exhausting that being confined on an airplane for too many hours, over night, and getting no sleep! We arrived in Tbilisi around 4 AM on Monday (remember, I left on Saturday morning) and were able to get through customs fairly quickly.

There is some sort of Youth Olympic thing going on here soon and there are signs every where. I decided that is was so nice of them to put up signs welcoming us to Tbilisi. LOL Typical American, right? 

So we arrive at the hotel - we're staying at the Radisson, right on the river that runs through the city. After too many hours on an airplane and too little sleep, we decide to take a nap and re-assemble at noon for lunch. 

Noon came and 8 of us arrived at our meeting place in the lobby. We started walking down the street and within two blocks we come across this:

Notice how the seats face each other - LOL. The big bike to no where. Our group kept walking for a bit more and we came to a curious little restaurant that, at first glance, looked a bit like a Hobbit hole!! The door (no pic, sorry!) looked like an over-sized round wine barrel. The interior was all woodsy and rustic. Loved it! OH - and the food was super as well. 

Interior of the restaurant - all the wood was just wonderful!

Cute carved chairs.

So, the waitress arrived with menus in Georgian. We were lost!!! They had two menus in English that we shared and we ended up ordering some wonderful, traditional Georgian food.

Kachupuri - traditional cheese bread served all over Georgia.

Kinkali - another very traditional food. This was awesome!!!! The filling was this savory ground pork YUMMY!

By the time we had eaten all this food I headed back to the hotel. I needed coffee and to catch up on email and communicate with my family. Later I'll post about the tour of the old part of Tbilisi and our big "Welcome" feast, called a supra, and what types of sights we saw.