Day 26 - Lithuanian Energy Museum

As promised we started the day at the Lithuanian Energy Museum on Rinktines 2. It used to be a coal-burning plant before it got replaced with the nuclear and Ukrainan gas altervatives. There isn't that many signs and we were the only visitors wandering around the giant halls in the three story space where they still had boilers, turbines, pipes, and giant panels with the sensor outputs, and lots of buttons, dials, and switches. They forgot to turn on the light in all the rooms so occasionally we could not go to some places because we could not find the switch to turn the lights on. It looked pretty cool, but obviously an engineer would be able to actually make sense of any of it. The ideal audience would be an engineer accompanied by a bunch of 7-10 year olds - there is a wealth of the narrow metal staircases to climb, dials and knobs to turn.

Georgia was initially excited by all the colorful pipes but got bored pretty soon. They had a nice recorded glass making demostration and that caught her interest for some time. She also enjoyed opening up the numerious drawers of the chest where different letters for the nearby printing press were kept. They also have one of the best interractive children's rooms I have ever seen. Definitely worth a visit.

Next, we met up with Dan and went to the market. We ran out of the farmer cheese. By now, we figured out how to limit the time between going to the food stores to 2 days but it seems impossible to buy food for a week like we used to in US. Either milk runs out, or bread, or cream cheese, or farmer cheese. And you can't really consume them at the equal pace and neither can you buy larger stock because it goes bad very fast. But it is fun to go to the store and try out different things. Incidentally we still could not find a good local cream cheese. We tried many of the local varieties, and embarrasingly stopped at Philadelphia.

For lunch we had the orphan kibinai with chicken soup. The lady who works there recognizes us already. She asked if she should save some kibinai for us for tomorrow.

Alicia called on her cell to say that her phone stopped working. We went to her house in the afternoon and Dan fixed it. The phone jack fell out of the wall, probably one of the cats tripped over it and Alicia was afraid to mess with the wiring. The cats were not expecting us, unfortunately to us. The cat can be a wonderful loving companion, just not in those quantities.

On the way back, Georgia tried to convince me to do a role playing game with her. I always get to be the villain so I resisted.

- Mom, do you want to be a robber?

- No.

- Maybe the Maleficent?

- No.

- Then you will be the Cuticle.

She actually said it in all Russian and it was funnier:

- Мама, ты будешь разбойником?

- Нет.

- Может быть тогда Зловрединой.

- Нет.

- Тогда ты будешь Заусеница.