Day 1 - Arriving to Vilnius

The trip itself was very similar to last time. We flew with SAS through the Copenhagen and arrived to Vilnius at noon on Sunday, May 31. Georgia was awake and behaved better than many adult pretty much the entire time. She fell asleep just at the plane started to descend in Copenhagen and then woke up and cried until they let us out of the plane, but it was nothing compared to the 12 hours of goodness around it.

Through a small mix up, the guys from Autobest.lt who were meeting us in the airport were about 5 minutes late. So we panicked, got a sim card, and, in the time we had available, called them, the apartment agent, and t.Lillia. Within minutes they had arrived (can't recommend enough the courteous service and most reasonable priced) and we packed our little Mitsubishi Colt and took off to go to Alicia. It is like we never left.

Alicia looks very good, it is like we just said goodbye yesterday. Except for a few subtle hints indicating a possible presence of over a half a dozen cats, apartment looks very clean and updated too. We had lunch and Georgia went to the playground looking for her old friends. No one was ther. And there was no updates to the playground state.

After that we went to the old city to look at our apartment on Didzioji. It was a great improvement over our last one. For one thing, it was bigger and had a balcony looking a nearby church. We could see a few other nearly steeples as well. All the rooms are separate and the master bedroom and stairs could be reached by a small wooden staircase going down. It really felt like an old city apartment. Plus it was clean, like a freshly prepped OR. The owner insisted on keeping it this way and on changing the linens by herself at the price we payed to another lady last year. The price for apt. was better than last year too. Audra from Gelminta DELFI short term rental agency, handled the research and transation again. Another round of recommendations here. Given the economic times, the companies that go above and beyond to keep up and improve their services deserve special mention, and more prospective clients.

The apartment owner was very self-assured, and with a bit of a condescending air. Interestingly, the last apt. owner, whose apartment we opted out of taking for diversity reasons, had the very same features, except the maniacal cleanliness. It may be an attribute of the other old city apartment owners who got their coveted cribs for probably next to nothing when LT allowed to privatize them.

Dan walked back to Alicia to pick her up and drive back to the apartment. Georgia and I walked a bit around the old town and watched the multiple folk performances, intersepted here and there by kids playing the violins, neo-goths, the guitars, and others their other instruments. It is good to be back.

We tried to convince Georgia to take the master bedroom reasoning that it would be quieter and would allow us to use her desk in the second bedroom. But she refused and was so thoroughly sick of us that she went to sleep around 7pm without allowing us to change her dress. Dan and Alicia moved the desk to the living room. We ate supper, and scampered around for another 2 hours before finally dropping off ourselves.