On the edge of 2009

Hi.
Happy new year everyone. I wish you all happiness, success, creativity and meaning in everything you're about to do this year.
Once again I welcomed new year free of alcohol, but the night was very impressive. We decided not to drink so we'd feel good next day (I'll come back to it later). So first we went closer to where it all took place, left out car and walked quite a bit. Here on the wall of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports and all around if E.T.A. Hoffman's fairy-tale and P. Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker simply blew us all away. I've never seen anything like it before and it all was very impressive and great way to spend last evening of 2008. It was wonderful show with lot's of musicians, dancers, stuntmen, lights, colors, fireforks etc.

Later that night we tried to go to the Cathedral square together with thousands of other people to check out the Gert Hof's lights and fireworks performance. Sadly because of the amount of people there we had to watch it through the branches of trees and listen to the shouts of many drunk teenagers, but it still was worth to see.
Aftre that we went back home, had a glass of wine and fell asleep.
1st January 2009. We woke up at 11A.M., found out that Eglukalns skiing tracks are still closed, but Sauleskalns a little bit more far away are already opened, packed our stuff and went to visit my parents. After great breakfast we jumped into our snowboarding clothes, set the destination point in my phones navigation program ant went all the way to sauleskalns near Kraslava, Latvia. There were only a few people skiing so we had unbelieveble time on our snowboards first time this winter.
Probably the best tracks I've tried so far not to mention the reak mountains, great english-speaking personell, inventory for rent, good elevators, nice people, lights, music and stuff like that.
The next day was something like that except that three more friend joined us and there were many people skiing and boarding already. If you're interested in this resort check out their website at www.skalns.lv.
On saturday we called Eglukalns again. And this time they were open. So we only had to go for 20 kilometers and didn't have to use navigation since we've been here before.
Except for too many people everything else was great. (more info on Eglukalns at www.sventesegles.lv)After snowboarding for three hours we visited my parents once again and then went back to Vilnius feeling tired but happy.
Here we found tons of snow and it gave us the idea for Sunday. We put on warm clothes, hats, shoes and gloves and went out to the forest with our dog. The weather felt klean and cool, we ran around in the snow, kicked the pines waiting for the snow from the branches to fall on us, throwed sticks for the dog to bring them back and so on.
So, after such a great 4 days weekend I'm back to regular routine waiting impatietly for next such opportunities.
I hope to get some photofootage next time.
Now go, enjoy the snow!
Bye