Married to the family

Yesterday was a funny day. Got up a bit hungover from birthday celebrations (where we drank all f our bribes), then we continued the drive. By now the landscape is mainly flat grassland for as far as the eye can see. After about 4 hours we sopped for fuel in a small corrugated iron petrol station and went in for a coffee only to find a full blown kazak wedding party going on inside, 3 days and 60 bottles of vodka after the actual wedding. We were immediately asked to sit down and join them all. Huge platters of mutton arrived and we all had to do shots and toasts to different things. After much translation by Jon it turned out we had crashed a Kazak mafia wedding. They all wanted ther picture taken with us, and Ad gave them polaroids which they loved. Now heading to Semey where the nuclear bomb testing took place between 1940 and 1989. Not hanging around tho, and later today we hit Russia again for 2 days. Missing everyone back home...it feels like we've been gone for weeks and weeks now x x