once again i am on capitol hill just across from st joseph's catholic church at the russian community center for their annual holiday baza so it turns out that the vendor is this woman who i have actually seen a number of times at cultural crossroads events as well and you are not tied to a cross not as and what i through the heart you know i'm not my parents my family came here and sixteen thirty one from england so we've been here a while and i don't think i have any russian blood but my wife is russian so hence the reason i became a member and why they elected me to the board of directors i have no idea but here i am well then your children are half russian now actually they're not because it's a second more marriage so oh you know so we're a very international family i adopted my kids so i have an african american girl i have a brother mexican fan and i have a russian wife and my cousin is japanese so i mean so it's a very international family but i'm about as pure bred americans you're going to find and tell a little bit about the russian holiday bizarre well  course is something that's been a tradition for centuries but in any community every community usually has picked a date to have a bazaar just as an opportunity for everybody and the community to gather together and so we carry on that tradition here at the russian community center by having a bazaar here so that all russians and all americans who have interest in russian culture can come and enjoy what there is now we have actually in seattle three russian bazaars because we have st spirit and have their own which is a church with a talks church and then there's the st nicholas which is also the russian orthodox church and they have their bazaar and then we have ours so there are actually three opportunities to enjoy the russian culture and russian food and in the some cases some vodka but we don't do that here at st nicholas we do interfere with their events but your victory happens around this time each year though that's correct in november we usually try to do it november would make sense because we can do we can have to do all everything and doors so it's just as well we do that they try to do theirs outdoors and indoors so we can let them have the fall weather early fall so that we're not in the middle so that there's a chance that people can enjoy being outside but we're all indoors here so it doesn't matter what time of the year we do and we do in order for most of it now besides the entertainment being fried but there is a cost for food and if you want to buy something from the vendor  that's made with bread and oh my gosh i can't remember all the ingredients but anyway it's a typical it's a very typical russian drink nonalcoholic so it was good for kids and it's very popular and one of our members i also have on display the arch of a of one particular or more artist but his website at the bottom of the screen and you can learn more about him and apparently he's very c back to some of the entertainment last year grey haired lady there in the middle of the  they also have regular soda w in russian that i read at all might be the same thing but this is what they look like  she sh ball we had a lot was a little bit more tragic but even though it sounded much more fun please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash two six five five eight slash list shows well my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and as always thank you for watching adventure t v cultural