My exciting trip to Novosibirsk (part one)

Have you ever heard about Novosibirsk? When I was informed about my business trip, I only knew that it’s quite a big city, and the capital of Siberia.
I have good memory and I remember that my acquaintance with Novosibirsk started in an aircraft in Sheremetyevo (Moscow). My flight was delayed due to heavy snow showers in Novosibirsk. Have you ever seen how robots treated aircraft against ice accumulation? O, it was new and interesting for me.
It was December and I had expected cold weather and snow. Nevertheless, I hadn’t expected extremely cold weather, icy wind and snow everywhere. I had never seen so much snow. It was beautiful. Frost braced up.
My first hotel was awful - I had problems with door lock and the room was very cold. I slept dressed in cardigan and jeans with two blankets. Fortunately, I had stayed in that hotel only for two days. I moved to the another hotel located a little bit farther from city center, but with beautiful view from window and with warm rooms. I saw the biggest metro bridge in the world through the river Ob from my window.
Working days were not so interesting - only hotel, taxi, office, hotel…
But my weekend was really nice. I met my old friend from the university. Firstly, she showed me Novosibirsk Zoo. It was worth my while. It was very interesting place, with many animals from white bears, minks, wolves to kangaroo and tortoises. Also there was a Liger (the offspring of tiger and lioness). We spent 3 hours walking through Zoo, then we had a dinner in Restaurant “Kolyada”, close to the Zoo.

[Very good.  A little trouble with articles (a, an, the), but all Russians have a problem that way with English.  A 'tortilla' is a small flat bread.  I think you meant tortoise, but I'm guessing.]