Nosovka: Part of the Family (Jan 12-14)

We visited Meredith's (Andrew's sister) host family, a few hours from Kyiv by train. It rained all weekend, and although we didn't get to see the town where Mer spent her first weeks, we got some R&R with great people! We ate, drank chai (tea), and played cards, and it was marvelous!


Some foods we ate:
Borshch-soup with white beans, potatoes, beet, slightly sweet
Shuba-Herring & beets, & mayo, it looks bright purple! (Jen was not thrilled with fish & mayo!!)
Homemade wine from grapes they had grown
Shashlyk-pork shish kebob with pork marinated in wine, onion, apple, red peppers

They taught us to play Durak (Dummy) and we taught them to play spoons! They saw us taking notes about our trip in a small notebook and gave us a journal! We have scraps and tickets from our trip pasted into our Ukrainian journal! :)