Mano senelio senelio senilio senelis?

Here are some random pictures of the last week, including the tragedy that occurred on Thursday, the snowfall.

The snow started to stick....

There was only one thing that would cheer me up after the snow, kugelis in a pot. Thank goodness for my cousin and her cooking.

I never used to use sour cream, but now it seems I do every day. Crazy!

Here is the lookout from my 8th story classroom from the university where I am giving speaking lessons to some professors. The buildings are mainly just apartment buildings. It certainly is not what I think of when I think of Europe. Of course this is not the center of town, but an important fact to remember is that only 12% of the town was left standing after WWII. That is a lot of buildings that needed to be built very quickly.

For the first time in my life, I bowled a clean game, meaning I got either spares or strikes in every frame and did not leave one pin standing. I think I was having a lucky streak because I was actually bowling a second game at the same time with the group of men I went bowling with. (We were bowling 2 games each on 2 different lanes) In that game I bowled an even higher score of 209 and nearly bowled another clean game but had one split which I nearly picked up. (On a side note, I don't want to just toot my horn, but the only other time that I played in Lithuania, I bowled a 201 one of the games and picked up my first split of my life.) So I was having a lot of fun. Unluckily for the group that I was with, they wanted to have a competition in which the person who won the game would win a big beer, 2nd place would get a small beer, 3rd nothing, and 4th and 5th would have to pay for the small and big beers respectively. Well, let's just say I made out quite well. Out of 6 games, I won 4 large beers and 2 small beers. Since it was such a landslide, everyone just paid my bowling games and that was it. I still may have to lose some games, though, if I will be invited again. Oh, also in this picture is a 100 Litų bill (100 Litai), worth about $40.

What is the most logical thing that you will find next to the Lithuanian liquor? Female hygiene products of course, including pregnancy tests. Catching this woman bending over was not intentional.

The picture above and below is are old relatives of the Jonaitis's, former rulers of Lithuaniam, I believe. Of course I already knew our family was like royalty so really there is no surprise. I could not look anything up on him, though, online so I will have to ask my cousin who is the museum curator in Lithuania to give me some history on him and maybe find out where my nearest castle is.

This is one of the bikes in the bike museum where I live. Notice it does not have any peddles... it is like a Flintstones' car in which you go by running on your feet. Šiauliai did and still does produce many bikes.