Oh vilnius

We got to Vilnius after a long swervy and sickening bus trip. But I think we found our hostel in record time and we only got slightly lost..
We made our obligatory trip to the supermarket to check on the price of peanut butter. We walked around the old town for a bit which was beautiful - similar to Tallinn but bigger, less touristy and less like disneyland.

We met Mani an English/Nigerian guy working in Sweden. Does this count as a Swede sighting?
After an embarrassing dinner of what was essentially baked beans and macaroni, we went out with Mani and Scott - one of the many Aussies staying at the hostel - to the university bar, where we danced with some crazy Lithuanians. I (nell) apparently couldnt keep up with them and sustained an ankle injury.

Then we went to another bar where we kept dancing even though the screen next to the dancefloor was showing a way way better party, which was just a bit depressing.

The next day Lee woke me up with lots of gentle kicks at about 10.30. After having a quick doctors consultation about my ankle with Dr Brener, we headed off to the Genocide Victims Museum with Mani. It was one of the best museums we'd been to, outside the walls were covered in childrens drawings, which were actually incredible.

at the Museum we ran into Scott and then we all went to find what the guide book described as a very interesting bridge.

A little disappointing for a 'must see' bridge.

We then started to wal to the Hill of Three Crosses. apparently this had an amzing view of Vilnius. We wouldnt know though because as we were walking a storm started up.

Then as we started to walk back, huge tree were falling off trees and shattering around us. we were also surrounded by trees. luckily we survived and now we have a cool story.

To celebrate our survival we made an intense dinner of pizza.

That night pretty much the whole hostel chilled on the balcony, drank tequila shots and learnt new drinking games.

Then a whole bunch of us went out to a bar where we met a Lithuanian jew and then we went to Salento - a foam party. Every cople of minutes insane amounts of foam would shoot down from the ceiling. I dont think foam parties could be so cool in Australia because im sure they would have some health and safety restrictions...

For our last day in Vilnius we went to the Jewish Museum. It was a small but impressive museum run by a cute woman who gave us free postcards. There were whole sections on jews from Kaunas (Kovne) and Siauliai (where some of our families come from) and I also saw a photo of a tombstone that said BRAUDO..

We then went, in the pouring rain, to a restaurant which looked impressively expensive and had borscht and stew.

That night, as it was a friday night and we are good jewish girls, we dressed ourselves up and attempted to go to shul. But we failed as they locked us out. So we just lit candles by the window.

Lee then went to sleep and i went out for a last night in Vilnius