New Year's Eve!

Well, I am pretty behind in postings...I guess we've really been on the go and it's taken its toll...

Here a little recap:

We arrived on the 30th of December in St. Petersburg and pretty much cooked and slept all the next day before heading out to a restaurant with an all night entertainment programm. Carlo's brother and his wife had eaten there before and we weren't disappointed!

There were loads of typical style russian salads (chicken salad, carrot salads, things with cucumber, mushroom salad and the list goes on...also cheese and sausage platters..and of course all the "Champansky" one could consume. :-)

The highlight was when Carlo and I got picked to participate in a dance contest, which we ended up winning due to the applause by the audience! I guess it was a good way to start the new year. At midnight, the central clock in Moscow was displayed on TV and President Medvedev held his new year's speech, but we mostly celebrated with sparklers and pops and, of course, more Champansky.


Before dinner....
and after dinner....



OH, and there was our waiter who looked like the actor from "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Blades of Glory"!!!
The MC, or "Tamata" ( Showmaster) was a transvestite, who did a fantastic job! Even though we didn't understand a word he was saying, you could tell enough to where we were laughing despite the language barrier. Here he is in one of his outfits, singing...
The performers ranged from belly dancers to comedians...it was a "colorful" show in every way of the word! :-)