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!
It reminds me a birthday party of a Russian military cadet in a student dorm (I was invited to such event once in my life). Each male guest had a half-litre of vodka in first 40 minutes, than the party continued with a brawl with Vietnamneese students (at the time I had been already sleeping), and it was finished by armed police (who woke me up).