Today we are celebrating the end-of-winter holiday of Maslenitsa ("Pancake Week"), which is happens the week before Lent. For dinner, we'll be having the traditional Russian "blini" (pancakes), which can be meat-, fruit-, or vegetable-filled. It is a festival similar to Mardi Gras. More
here, if you're interested. And tonight we'll "burn the Baba" (an effigy of an old woman which represents Winter) to welcome Spring!
Today, also, we finally have sunshine and a temperature of 70-75 degrees. It's been really chilly and rainy here since last Sunday...
Below are a couple more pictures, one of me with my advanced-beginner students and the other of my "family" at the lunch table (minus me, of course; the red sign says Dostoevskys in Russian).
That's it for now...
Poka!
