Posts under ‘Holidays’

Well, it’s Easter Sunday here in the USA. Russians are a little different when it comes to Easter. They celebrate the Orthodox holiday of Easter which falls on April 17th this year (next Sunday). So, here at my house, we celebrate Easter twice a year. This morning we woke to a fresh spring snow storm. [...]

International Women’s Day was yesterday. Most American’s don’t know this holiday as our government has chosen to ignore it for some unknown reason. Our equivilent is Mother’s Day I guess. My wife went to a party with a bunch of local Russian women to celebrate. Anyway, congratulations go out to all the women in the [...]

We’ve brought in another new year, and this one came in with a big bang. We threw a party at our house yesterday. We’re both paying for it today. A little too much vodka, beer, wine and champagne mixed together. Russians sure can party. We socialized, played charades, sung karaoke and drank. Unfortunately, I found [...]

Well, winter is coming soon now, the children are back to school and summer vacations have come to an end. Another summer has come and gone and it is time to start thinking about Christmas. What? Well maybe not just yet. We sponsored 3 young ladies from the Ural State University this summer. They study [...]

It’s Easter today. The in-laws like fish, so I offered to smoke fish today. Got some nice looking trout – they’ve never had trout in Russia. I actually smoke fish every couple of months. We really enjoy smoked fish, but I don’t really care for the smoked fish that you purchase in the store. And [...]