What is an AnastasiaWeb tour? A visit to a beautiful interesting country full of history, places of interest and friendly people. Plus, meeting with hundreds of Russian women! Each Social equals a year of exchanging letters, with hundreds of beautiful and eagerly awaiting ladies in attendance. Learn more about it on Anastasiawebtours.com!
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Spring Tour 2005 March 31 - April 9
The tour was almost over and everybody was sad to leave… It was the time of the life for most of the clients: several guys had already given their engagement rings and were working on the fiancee visas, most of the guys had met someone special and certainly everyone made very good friends among the members of the group and with the staff. We decided to crown this exiting trip with a special event everyone would remember and invited the group with their dates to the Ukrainian restaurant called “Khutorok”. Those who already knew the taste of Ukrainian cuisine (many of the guys had been to the family dinner already) accepted the invitation with readiness.
It was also a good chance for those who had not yet tried Ukrainian food to see what a Ukrainian wife could cook for the family during many happy days of the future married life… and I bet that many guys who were still in doubt finally pulled the ring out of the pocket and said the magic marry-me phrase after that magnificent dinner.
We all sat at a big table (actually a number of tables pushed together) covered with a Ukrainian style cloth and felt like a big family during a fest. The guys who did not know what to order let us, the assistants, choose for them and we picked genuine Ukrainian dishes to surprise them. I recommended one of the members of the group to try pelmeni. What is pelmini? It is a meet ball boiled in dough. Sounds disgusting? Try it and you will be surprised!
Some of the guys ordered borsh – Ukrainian beetroot soup and others tried the famous vareniki. Vareniki look like pelmeni but the stuff is different. It can be soft cheese with raisin, mashed potato with mushrooms or berries. It was so much fun to read in the client’s review after my return to Moscow – Vareniki vkusno (tasty)! Ukrainian food even helped some people to start speaking Russian!
Some of the group members even asked the waitresses to write the recipe of the dishes to treat their families. One of the guys was so impressed by the Ukrainian culture and lifestyle that he bought a boulitsa as a wedding gift for his daughter. Boulitsa is a sort of mace which is presented to a Ukrainian bride to help to keep the future husband in line. I hope she will appreciate the humor in it.
I did not dare to order gorilka and salo for our clients (it is a very strong drink with a sort of Ukrainian bacon as an appetizer) but a few drinks were passed and we congratulated everyone to the end of the trip and to the changes that took place in the life of the members of the group during the trip. Cheers! - called the guys holding their beloved in their arms. It was so rewarding to see the happy tears in their eyes...
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