{"id":1394,"date":"2025-08-16T03:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:51:08","slug":"diary-of-lithuania-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Diary Of Lithuania Visit August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bri and I set out to visit my cousin, Billyaray, and his wife in Lithuania for a few days. Stacy decided to join us and we had a great time. We explored a lot of Vilnius, had a lot of beers, ate a lot of good food, did a lot of shopping, and lots of walking around. Billyray and Kim were amazing hosts and it was an amazing trip. I&#8217;m so glad I was able to spend so much time with them and with Stacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictures:<br>TBD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunday, August 9, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Got up &amp; cleaned &amp; packed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got Bri up &amp; decided on breakfast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Left Lando in the apartment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went to Maria&#8217;s for breakfast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tesla ride to airport<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faro\u2026 Waited around for checkin kiosk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got boarding passes &amp; checked in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waited for gate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Forgot I needed a beer to fly so I got really nervous<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Boarded &amp; flight to Frankfort<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crazy airport! Walked around a lot; couldn\u2019t find a good place to get food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally found a place to eat &amp; had two large beers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ran to fight to Vilnius<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Short flight with nap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Landed in Lithuania &amp; my phone actually worked!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Met up with Stacy &amp; Kim &amp; Billyray<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beers at night at Billyray&#8217;s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunday, August 10, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Woke up &amp; tried to go back to sleep<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great breakfast that Kim prepared<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watched some TV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walked around town a lot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flag ceremony<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billyray and me dropping hints that we wanted beer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beer and the bee; bee kept flying into my beer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got a Bolt back<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ate some food from Uber eats (A Lithuanian thing) with salad and healthy stuff<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Took a nap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got up and went back out to smoke shop for Bri<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went walking around<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hit up a cheap food place since Bri thought food places close<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was raining So took a Bolt back<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hung out &amp; had more beer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watched half of Happytime Murders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went to sleep<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Couldn&#8217;t sleep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monday, August 11, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Continued to not be able to sleep<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went out to living room &amp; played on phone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saw sunrise<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billyray got up and we chatted for a bit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did portugu\u00eas stuff &amp; talked to a friend<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great breakfast again from Kim<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got ready &amp; went to thrift shop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got Bolt to mall &amp; got coffee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walked around all floors of mall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Headed to the park<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Met up with Kim &amp; got some beers at the park &amp; appetizers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Headed back to apartment for quick break<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went to food truck park &amp; got beers and dinner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walked back &amp; hit up an oyster bar for beer and wine and oysters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back to apartment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>YouTube roulette<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pink soup for snack<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watched the rest of movie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watched other netflix movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuesday, August 12, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Woke up with sun<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People got up at random times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talked to Billyray; Billyray had to run to work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alarm kept going off in building<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Had breakfast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People took a nap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I went out &amp; got coffee for everyone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billyray &amp; Bri went to speaker places<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stacy, Kim, and I went to the market<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hot sauce &amp; browsing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walked to outdoor restaurant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beer &amp; potato pancakes; flight of beer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bri &amp; Billyray met up with us<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walked to townhall &amp; checked it out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More thrift Shopping for Stacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stopped at divebar for drinks on way home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home &amp; Kim prepared food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billyray &amp; me started drinking &amp; dancing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Movies &amp; beer &amp; talking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wednesday, August 13, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Got up early<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waited for people to wake up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally had a little sex<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kim prepared breakfast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bri got coffee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bolt to market<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Started walking with Billyray, Bri, &amp; Stac &amp; exploring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beers at swingset bar place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Walked around &amp; found shot glasses &amp; chocolate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Passport place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Found a Breaking Bad bar! But they didn\u2019t serve alcohol :(<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got drinks at an outside bar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More drinks at another bar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went to delicious burger place to celebrate Billyray&#8217;s birthday<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Came back to apartment &amp; got more beer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Passed out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Woke up &amp; everyone else was asleep besides Bri<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watched YouTube and hung out &amp; had more beers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday, August 14, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Couldn\u2019t sleep much; got up on time; around 3:30 am<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got Bri Bri up &amp; got ready<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gathered things &amp; headed down<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billyray &amp; Kim called us a Bolt and we bolted to the airport<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bri had to check in bag so waited in line<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uneventful walk to gate; pretty easy checkin but always picked the wrong line<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Waited for plane<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plane to Franfort<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Decided to find food<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camped out at a random, unoccupied gate all day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Took a nap; walked around<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Headed to gate &amp; camped out there<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plane to Faro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gathered bag &amp; got uber home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Had to get Lando so Stacy &amp; I walked to bar &amp; had a non-alcoholic drink w\/ Michael &amp; Lando &amp; Rudi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went back home; hot as hell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bri got pizza later<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chilled in and watched Sister Act<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Went to bed somewhat early<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bri and I set out to visit my cousin, Billyaray, and his wife in Lithuania for a few days. Stacy decided to join us and we had a great time. We explored a lot of Vilnius, had a lot of beers, ate a lot of good food, did a lot of shopping, and lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-family","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}