Winter has Arrived in Mockba23 января 2012

Winter is finally upon us here in Mockba. It generally snows just about every day and temperature are in the low minus teens now.


If you'd like to get a sense of what Mockba winter is looking like: Last Saturday a group of us from Nancy's school drove about an hour and a half outside of Mockva to an outdoor party in the snow We first stopped into a B&B and had a traditional breakfast after which we drove a short distance and then loaded ourselves onto 2 horse-drawn sleighs which took us into the forest and arrived a a camp site with 2 pits fires, hot dogs for roasting and a lot of vodka, beer and wine.


Those that were interested took sleigh rides into adjacent farm fields. Some went sleigh riding on a nearby hill. After about 3 hours out in the cold and snow we returned to the B&B and went into a баня (sauna). After getting very sweaty and wacking ourselves with wet birch branches to get your circulation going you had a choice of jumping into a cold pool or outside in a snow bank. I hit the pool twice while Nancy headed for the snow bank.


After the баня experience set sat down to a traditional dinner of borsht, bread, vegetables with meats and cheeses followed by an interesting casserole of beef, potatoes and ionion. After dinner we piled back into our buss and headed back to the City.


If you’re interested go to my site: http://www.andrewmcdonoughphotography.com/ and then click on the bottom file called: “banya_jan_22_2011.pdf” Save it to a convenient folder and then click on it to activate the .pfd file. There will only be 2 faces you recognize but you’ll note that everyone else seemed to be having a great time and you can now get a sense of how much snow has piled up and how cold it was that day.


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