Last week...

Friday after school, we went to Memelis for supper around 7 p.m. and had their famous sausage and kraut. Then, I met Jude and Erica for a sunset view of the Baltic from the 22nd story of the K building. It was great up there. They had some live music, followed by a DJ. We headed over to the Klaipeda Hotel to show Erica the "glass bathrooms." You get a bird's eye view of downtown Klaipeda while taking care of business. We celebrated Christina's birthday with desserts at 11 p.m. from the top of the Klaipeda Hotel. There was a saxoponist there as well, and it wasn't as crowded as the top of the other building.

On Saturday, we went to the orphanage. Jude and I took the bus since there wasn't room in the cars. We played softball most of the time. There was stack of baseball gloves with UWSP-PE written all over them. Jude made some bubbles, which the kids just loved again. This time, we took students from our class as well along with some of the teachers. Most of the teachers went to Vilnius for some sightseeing. Just as we got there, a group of Spanish students came to play with the orphanage kids too. So they had alot to do. It was very warm, and after two hours of hitting and fielding the ball, we had juice in the plastic mugs which Grandpa Bud bought and Kel and Sharon took back with them last fall.

Tim, one of the other teachers, and Jude and I left to go home by way of McDonalds and the beach. After eating at McDonalds, we got on a bus and ferry to go to the beach. The wind was blowing hard and the sand was everywhere. But, the water was great. We sat out on the sandbar for about 30 minutes, went back to the beach and read or slept and then repeated the process again. It was a great day to be on the beach. Then Erwin showed up walking down the beach. We swam with him for awhile, and then Tim left with Erwin and Jude and I stayed for another hour or so. On the way home, we ended up first in line for the next ferry back across the bay. But a different ferry came and we had to get into a different line because it docked at another landing. It reminded us a little of Russia... We found a pizza place on the way home. It tasted so good after a day at the beach. Once home we showered--still finding sand and then settled in to preview "Leap of Faith," the movie I'm showing for movies and chat next Tuesday/Thursday.

It rained pretty hard early Sunday morning around 4 a.m. and then the sun came out. However by noon it was raining again. We did some laundry--it seems as though if you're drying and washing at the same time, the fuse blows...so it took longer than normal. It gave me some time to blog and Jude to read "The Grapes fo Wrath." She's already plowed through "East fo Eden," "Poland," "The Last Time I Was Me." Man, it's really raining out now--thunder and lightning. The downspouts are gushing out water. It's nice to be inside...dry and relaxed...