Happy Valentines Day

Today most men and boys are walking around town carrying flowers.  The flower shops are doing a brisk business and the bazars and stores are selling red paper hearts and balloons.  The local radio station have a day long call in show where declarations of love are being sent to loved ones. 
Valentines day has only been celebrated in Ukraine since the early 1990's, after the fall of the iron curtain and western decadence has taken hold.  Valentines may not be celebrated to the extent that some western countries, but that doesn't mean that our woman don't find it to be as important to them. 
Another reason to celebrate this day is that my cousins daughter gave birth to twins today, a boy and a girl.
So we are opening a bottle of wine today to celebrate.