Baths...

This is one of the favorite past times in Ukraine for women and there is a process! I won't have too many pictures to post for this event considering that this event requires you to wear nothing but your party suit! We go every other Friday night. After we are prepared in our uniform we go into the sauna and get nice and hot and after a while we come out and drop a bucket of cold water over our heads. Usually these baths have a pool but in smaller towns you just have a bucket. We shower after each interval into the sauna. Around the third or fourth time the salt scrub, the coffee scrub, the honey, etc must be rubbed on your body and then go back into the sauna. All of this makes your skin feel like a baby's a$$. Its really fun and relaxing. It's like ladies night. All the ladies come and we drink and talk about things. It is all in Russian but I can get the jist of things sometimes. It is nice to have a ladies night once in a while. Most of the ladies I have met are married and have children. We drank a lot of beer last night...it was fun...