Midsummer Vacation

Well after five days off its back to work. Here's a re-cap of the vacation. On Friday, I left work early, because at the last minute Lena and I got a ride to Madona with my Lettonia Krasu Tevs (Frat Big Brother). That was fun. There were two other brothers in the car and they tried to convince Lena that the fraternity isn't just a bunch of guys that sit around and drink, but I don't think she believed it. Especially considering that they were drinking at the time (don't worry the driver wasn't drinking). The next day, we visited Lena's grandmother and spent sometime with her relatives. Her uncle always tries to get me to start a business with him, this time it was something to do with exporting moonshine to the U.S.. After that, we went to our friend's house that has a back yard to celebrate the evening. The celebrating started later, because of the Latvia vs. The Netherlands soccer game. The game was painful to watch. Latvia lost 3-0. After that we sat around the fire ate, drank, and talked about what life was like growing up. I, of course, was at a serious disadvantage with the lack of experience growing up during The Soviet Union. After we were good and drunk we went to the dance at the open air theatre in Madona, but we didn't stay there long, because we got the idea to head, back to Riga at 4 AM. Oh, by the way it was dark for an hour all night! Lena had to work on Friday, so we decided to head back early. I slept most of the way except when I woke up and started yelling for people to stop bothering me, but I don't really remember that part. The rest of the weekend was spent calmly around the house catching up on reading and other things. This morning it was really hard to get out of bed. Now, my mind has to turn to planning the big trip.