LITHUANIA 2009 - Trip Across Eastern Europe DAY #1

Kaunas, Lithuania
Monday, June 15, 2009
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Trip Across Eastern Europe DAY #1
We finally made it to the Lithuanian border after a long journey through northeast Poland. Although there were guards at the border, we made it through without being stopped. The scenery changed once again. The one thing we noticed right away was the different language on signs. We have been able to learn some conversational Polish since we arrived in Poland, and feel that we can even read and understand signs in Polish. But Lithuanian is completely different than Polish. Polish is a Slavic language whereas Lithuanian is a Baltic language. So we had absolutely no idea what these signs said. We also noticed that people were driving much slower. Some of the architecture looked different, and even the traffic lights worked differently as we drove through towns. We did notice that our car began to start making a new noise, which was cause for concern. But we knew we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it there, as we wouldn’t be able to communicate with the people, and we were also hoping to make it to Cheryl’s place in Latvia before 10:00 pm. So we continued on, praying that our car would make it to Latvia, where we could have a mechanic take a look at it. We also prayed as a family for Lithuania as we drove through this country as we listened to worship music from our iPod. It actually didn’t take us long to make it through Lithuania to the Latvian border. Again, we are so thankful to have our GPS with maps of all of Europe.

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Christian Young