Day 6 - Just because

Nothing really interesting to report. Saw Rosita at last. She looks beautiful in the orange flowing robes, golden slippers, and in full makeup. Incidentally the "America, America" guy does not have his bike anymore. This sucks, really, ruins his image. I am going to take pictures of all the special chracters.

There is also a national holiday going on for the forth day. Not sure how it started, but today was the anniversary of crowning of King Mindaugas who was Lithuanian first king. At 10:30 there was hardly a person on the street. But by 1pm small groups started to gather on the Cathedral square waiting for some kind of costumed show at 2pm. It was pretty hot. We waited until 1:45. Watched an argument between the leader of knights and the leader of soldiers, in English. We finally lost patience and went home leaving the kids with Irina. She took some pictures.

In the evening we went to Forto Dvaros. Still as good. Smoked pig ears are the best. Called it a day early. At night there were some wild screams from the outside. Someone must have scored a goal. There isn't as many public displays of soccer watching here so I don't know who beat whom.

Remember the big fight over the souvenir shop when all the booths were closed and vendors spent days doing the sit in and hunger strikes to bring international attention to their plight. What happened this year was that they all reappeared across the street on the St. Paraska's parking lot. They have beautiful new booths with the walls covered with the pictures of Old Vilnius. It looks very nice. In the evenings there are tours around the booths for the seniors. So it is a win win any way you put it.

At 11pm we called Alicia who was supposed to have gotten home from a 10 day driving trip around Poland. I want to do that when I am almost 80. We did not tell her we are here because we are thinking of the ultimate way to break it to her without giving her a heart attack. We considered telling her that we got the tickets to Belgium and she has to pick them up on Vokieciu. Maybe we will just walk over to her place tomorrow.