Weekend in Siauliai

The weekend started off with a trip to Kaunas on Friday seeing the same family having a good time in the medieval festival. According to the commercials, it was the 'biggest event in Kaunas' history'. Interesting how an event commemorating history is the most significant event in history. Either way, Eimantas and I were kind of bored, so we went home and hung out.
The next day, I took a bus to Siauliai to hang out with Domas Dielautas. His mom and my mom were good friends from the time our family used to live in Lithuania 15 years ago. We hung out with his neighbor, Domas, in Akropolis, one of the shopping malls in Lithuania. We originally were looking for something to do since we were going to go to nature with a bunch of his friends, but they bailed. Then he got a call inviting us to participate in an old Lithuanian wedding tradition where there are distant friends who block the road to the after-party and require pay for the bride and bridesmaids to go through. There was a whole series of traditions with that, and it was really fun. Then we went to a birthday party for one on Domas' friends that was really fun. These were all seniors and the house big and on a lake. Eventually we did go home and went to sleep.

The next day involved touring the countryside and visiting the famous Hill of Crosses. It is basically one hill of over 50,000 crosses, but it seems like more. In America, we always hear about this place, but it was interesting actually being there. Then I had my 5,000 calorie meal of 2 cepelinai in a restaurant nearby. I'm still full, and it was absolutely delicious. I wanted to stay in Siauliai, but alas, I had to go back to Vilnius.

Of course, it's raining today for the 2nd Monday in a row. Since officially, Mondays are meant for officials to visit their districts, and Simenas doesn't represent a district, I did nothing today, and neither did p. Simenas. I read many newspapers and I think I know everything that's going on in England, Lithuania, and the United States. The only thing that's happening is that a volcano erupted in Iceland. Hopefully I'll make it to graduation, but we'll see. Maybe nothing will happen, or maybe I'll have a fun adventure traveling around the volcano to make it to graduation.

Note: Whenever I say Parliamentary officials, I don't think this is the actual Parliament in Lithuania. There is a separate division in the government that officially calls itself 'Parliament', but it has little power or infuence compared to 'Seimas'. From now on, since there is no good American translation, I'll start saying 'Seimo nariai' instead of 'Parliamentary officials' to keep the truth. When I received the explanation of the Lithuanian government last week, that is where the 'mistake' came about in calling the nariai "Parliamentary officials". Sorry.