Here are some of those things we have been promising- photos from Maxim's brother's wedding- you may remember that a month ago Garry got a real slice of Ukrainian life when he drove with our hired guy to attend his older brother's wedding. They stayed over 2 nights at Maxim' parents home in a village about 4 hours from Nikolipoli. It was back when it rained everyday for weeks so the yard was too muddy to drive into. The ceremony was at the official wedding building at 11 am (even those who marry in church have to have an official civic one) and then the drove around town taking pictures at parks until the reception at 4 pm (until midnight) with lots of food, dancing and many games, mostly to embarrass the maid of honor (Garry has video of when they had her lay down on some chairs and had the blindfolded best man -in the photo with Maxim- find chocolates on her) and money was collected in pink and blue baby tights to see what the couple's first child would be.
While driving back to the village after the wedding a taxi turned into the side of the Lada- it had even been decorated with ribbons for the procession that day- smucking up the passenger side door.
Garry and Maxim brought home a present from his mother - the baby ducks- 3 still happily living in our yard after I built a more dog-proof cage for them before I started with Summer English Institute.
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