MTV Moscow

Thanksgiving came early this year for me. I was in Moscow 11/20-23, and of course, it was a fantastic weekend. I may have mentioned all this in a previous post -- enormous amounts of delicious food, good times with Mom and Dad by the fire, even some snow.  ...And all of that is wonderful, yeah, sure, but kind of par for the course as far as Thanksgivings go. But make no mistake: this wasn't just your run-of-the-mill 'early Thanksgiving' weekend. It was also an extraordinary weekend-long cultural celebration of elaborate song and dance rituals.