They have a drinking culture. I actually like it, lol. When they come to NYC, they are shocked at how NYers don’t drink all that much.
They are really fun and we laughed a lot! Any celebration involves drinking and a lot of good food. That being said.. my tolerance is that of a seven year old. Russian vodka is good the first shot of celebrating a birthday. To not enjoy a shot is sort of insulting to them. Thus... my plans to mail any birthday gifts! There isn’t any sort of “sipping”. Downing is more like it. Let me put it this way: the first hour of the party was great.. wish I could remember the rest of the time!