GREEN

today, again shockingly enough was another fabulous day and honestly this far, my favorite. we woke up early and set out for a road trip to the lake. we got to see so many awesome things that we would never have been able to see if Dima hadn't let us take his car (SO generous) him and his family came with us and he was our navigator so we got to listen to the european radio. lotsss of techno, songs of weird being singing in different languages and american top 40.... it was so much fun. it was exactly as you see in movies, pictures ect of eastern europe. so green, lush, beautiful orchards, and adorable villages. i now like to think that one day my husband and i will be able to retire to a beautiful place like this to live. actually, it would be so fun to raise kids in a place like that to so maybe i will just move here forever.... (dont worry mom and dad, i need more money first, so i will be returning home for a quick minute for a visit, make money and back to lithuania i come hahah ) anyways we made many pit stops along the way. this was a national forest that we drove through so it was beautiful the entire way. (below you will see a picture of our route).... enjoy :)

this is the typical european cemetery garden. they plant foliage there instead of putting vases and freshly cut flowers on graves. it was soooo beautiful! if/when i die, do something like this for me okay?

this was a husband and wife's grave. they planted these trees when they passed away like 100 years agao and they have grown together at the top. it was so cool and very romantic!

another pit stop...and another catholic church.
 these were beautiful mirror lakes in the middle of these amazing lush fields. so breathtaking! 

big-ole sunflower

so i saw this sunflower and it made me think of cade (shocker) and one of his pictures from texas he had sent me. so i decided to take one like it and sent it to him as a TWINNERS picture... im sure he wont think i am as funny as i think i am but hey, i can dream right?! 

pretty driving scenery!

this was our route we took. you cant see if very well but we drove where the red lights are. we did a big circle. it took from about 9am to about 7pm. SO worth it.....

 

my dinner and a dessert we all shared. i was in heaven that i could finally have chicken and it was cooked to perfection. also we had a pastry stuffed with nuttella and ice cream. i could have eaten it 20 times over again. it was so amazingly good!

more of us driving. its sad because these picture dont nearly do it justice of how beautiful and green it was....

mushrooms! in these forests we saw at least like 10-15 people throughout just picking mushrooms for sale and they were GIGANTIC!!!!!!!!!!! dima told us to never buy them from any markets or anywhere other then the grocery store because so many people die here every year because people accidentally pick poisonous ones and so people buy them and pass away.... crazy huh!?

i caught a frog!!!

me and cute jen! :)

a water closet (restroom) that i had to use. we went to this bed and breakfast because we all had to go and they told us it was around back.... yeah... so far away and not even connected to the building it was so funny but super small and stinky. it might as well have been an outhouse. it did the job well though haha