Klaipeda Sea Festival

Friday afternoon Aidas Peg and Kristina Stick showed up to party for the Festival. On the way to meet them and on the way back was a stop over at Malunininkai. It's a bar that has special prices for take out with are less than shop prices: 3.20/liter of Baltijos, which is usually about double that at bars and a little less than double that in shops. Unfortunately the barmaid didn't close one of my bottles properly and now i have to wash my backpack and everything that was in it :(

We walked around and saw plenty of boats and drunks, but I'm afraid the events aspect of this festival didn't make a great impression on me. There were tons all over, and we saw alot of them, but they were much less impressive than the Durham Fair.

What we actually did for fun is what we would have done everyweekend. Friday, after a concert featuring some kind of music, we went to Honolulu. I was already a bit too tired to dance much, so no biggie there.

Saturday walked around the docks, where we saw a ton of graffiti, including "Rastenis gives the best free BJs!" Back to my place for Spaghetti and Meatballs and to change clothes for clubbing. First off to drink a bunch of dark HBH Beer at a tent, which tired out Aidas and Kristina, so I suggested stopping at a shope to make Redbull Vodkas. And we're off!

At the shop after walking Egle to her car, Saidas takes off for Honolulu again by himself, so now it's just the three of us. We get the cocktails and blah blah blah...

We hit this new spanish club, La Clalplolca or something, which is neat. I try dancing, it is good music to dance to, but only if you've got someone to dance with or get picked up within a few songs. I didn't (yet)! So I went back to the bar. This bartender was Good, with a capital G. I ordered a vodka with ice and lemon, and in about point two seconds he convinced me to get a double.

I lost Aidas and Kristina, who turned out to be resting an a tied off dark room. So I tried Memelis, which has better music to dance to if you're a loner! They're closed, so I hit Prieplauka, a bit seedy, but okay as a last resort or a change of pace. Within five mintues a girl falls into my lap, literally. I'm stading next to the bar with my vodka on the rocks (they were out of lemons!) and she stumbles right into me, and I help her onto a bar stool.

Aras: "Labas!"

She takes my cigarette, takes a puff, puts it out in the ash tray, and say: "Let's dance?" So we're dancing, somewhat sloppily, and blah blah blah, and we go upstairs to sit down with her cousins. Two of these heafty guys start givin me lip about how they'll find me and make me pay if I hurt they're little cousin (who turned out to be three years older than I). I almost left because of that, but I'm not in charge, so...

Aidas and Kristina show up, see this girln on my lap, and start cheering me on. I go back downstairs to dance with her, and I know they're watching me, so I glance up: very reminicent of American Pie, they're right behind her waving thumbs up in the air to me with devilish looks on their faces.

Her friends were leaving, and I (and A. and K.) was like "oh crap," but then I saw Jovita's cousin writing down her address for Jovita, and I (and A. and K.) was like "oh baby!" However, what Jovita had in mind was simply more dancing. But Prieplauka was closing, so we had to go to the only place left open, Kalifornia...

I'd never been there because of it's terrible reputation, plus Saidas got his nose broken there, plus Tadas stepped out of a cab into a pool of blood there. But, I'm not in charge, so...

VERY SHADY, I'll never go there again. Kids walk around in packs dropping roofies and picking fights. While I'm dancing with Jovita two kids come up, one tries to get between us (but he's not used to people not being intimidated of him, so it didn't really work) while the other offers to buy her a drink (with a roofie; he didn't say that, but...)

So we get the fuck out of that place.

Sunday morning (3p.m.) Kristina makes scrambled eggs. Quite a catch, that girl--the only person I know who makes eggs better than I do, plus she doesn't put sugar in her coffee, and she's acing med school. Lucky Aidas! And then we go to Pas Juozapa (Hash B Hash) for Cepelinai and Beer and Dirty Sanchez type jokes. And then to the Final Concert and Fireworks, for which all three of us were so tired I'm really glad it ended at 11 instead of 12.

So all in all the weekend was a blast more because of the company than because of the Sea Fesival. You're all invited to come make it enjoyable again or for the first time next year!