Wedding Day 2

Wedding Day 2
Monday, August 03, 2009
4:11 AM

So after recovering from the first day we all got on a bus and headed out to Aleks family town, Cacak, to do it all over again but in the country. Although Cacak is one of the larger towns in Serbia its population is only around 100k. We drove to the family home where his grandmother lives for 6 months of the year (the other six months she lives in San Pedro) and his Mom and Dad live roughly a month a year.

In country fashion they had a pig and a lamb roasting on spits and a huge pot of cabbage cooking next to those. Both the pig and the lamb were cool but I had seen similar setups at Filipino functions in the past. The pot of cabbage on the other hand was really interesting. It was set up on a sheet of steel and heated by wood that was lit directly beside the pot. Heat was kept at an even distribution by turning the pot every few minutes.

As everyone started filing in and the sun went down the band was set up and the music started playing. By this time the Pivo and Raijka had already been flowing and the food was coming out in multiple courses. We started with a platter of sliced meats along with bread, then moved to the cabbage that was served in bowls, then finished up by first taking the meat directly off the lamb and the pig. As you could imagine both were excellent and really tender. After that we danced late in to the night. The biggest surprises were hand grenades that were thrown out in to the field which is a common tradition, and the arrival of two local police on duty police officers that joined the festivities around midnight. Contrasting the city and country styles was great and also a lot of fun.