Has any of you, FSU well traveled creatures, ever taken your own western children to visit the land of the woman you're married, courting or engaged to?
I'm asking for real time experiences with your children of previous marriages, not opinions on whether it should be done or not, OK?
toad:
not done as yet my friend but planning is well underway for my 2 kids to travel to Kharkov with Inna and I at the end of October..........watch this space!!!!.......:))
I'm bringing my daughter to Russia with me in November to meet my fiance's family. They can't wait to meet their American granddaughter. She talks to my fiance and her new gramma and grampa quite often and they all get along very good. I'll fill you in on real world experience soon. If everything goes as planned this should be my last visit to Russia for a while, were expecting her visa in Jan or Feb.
I took my 19 year old soon with me for a portion of a trip to Kiev last January. He met the woman I was seeing at the time (and who I was planning on bringing over on a K1 visa, but that is a separate story. He is a journalism major. He went up to Chornobyl, took some photos, wrote a story, got published in a weekly. I think it was a good experience for all involved (her, me, my son, her son.
As for my son, he told me one thing after I returned home that definitely told me it was a good thing that he went.
He said "Dad, I see a lot of my friends, who have it materially much better than anyone I saw in Ukraine. Inspite of this they are not happy. On the surface you would think it should be these people (Ukrainians) that would not be happy."