The weekend started with meeting Emma in Tbilisi on Saturday as she was
visiting Lauren for the weekend. We
walked around Tbilisi, got some lunch and attempted to WALK UP a million and a
half stairs to get some observation deck? to be honest, I have no clue where we
were climbing to but it seemed like a good idea at the time. We then got a call from Kiki to hang out (a native Georgian friend), met her at Freedom Square and went to Turtle Lake (Kus Tba) in Tbilisi – it’s a small lake on “top” of
Tbilisi.
As we are sitting enjoying a lovely glass of ghvino, Eva
gets a phone call and gets invited to a TLG event in Batumi. I sat there waiting for the phone call and
thought to myself—why the hell am I waiting around?! I asked her for the number,
called them and asked if I could come too.
I was called back in about 5 minutes saying that I was very welcome to
join. We were asked to meet in Tbilisi at 9am the
next morning, so I went home to pack and bust a sleep.
The bus ride to Batumi was super long—it took almost 9 hours
but it was rather enjoyable as Eva and I sat right up front on the double
decker bus and we got a lovely view of the whole ride there. We
stopped in Kutiasi for some lunch. Lunch
was awesome! I felt like a king—there was pretty much every type of Georgian
traditional food available and we got to mingle with other TLGers from
different groups including the group that came after me. I love meeting new people!
We got to Batumi at 5:30 and were told that our rooms were
not ready as of yet so about 25 girls had to run and get ready in the lobby
bathroom of the hotel as we were due to go to a Georgian musical that the
president was attending. Honestly, I really
hate people sometimes. There was this
woman in our group that was flipping out that the room weren’t ready and how
difficult could it be to get everyone checked in. ugh. I honestly wanted to punch her right in
the face. Let me make something clear—this
entire trip was FREE. The bus ride, the awesome lunch, the show, the hotel
room. EVERYTHING WAS FREE. How dare you complain when you aren’t spending
anything. Honestly, people have some
nerve! I later went over to the person
she had been yelling at and apologized for her embarrassing and offensive behaviour.
The art house was beautiful! It had just opened a few months before and was
made pretty much out of glass—thank god I was wearing a dress and giving all
the people downstairs a free show! The beginning of the show was delayed a bit as
the president and his buddy from Morocco had to show up and get a standing
ovation. The play was wonderfully
done. Great music, creative costumes and
beautiful singing.
We went back to our hotel, got our rooms assigned and to my
surprise, Eva and I landed a luxury suite.
We invited our friends over and spent the night talking,
drinking some delicious wine and putting off sleep—since its for the weak! As the sun was rising we decided to go and
check out the Black Sea as we were all leaving at 10 in the morning to head
back home.
The trip was super awesome and I can’t thank TLG enough for
taking me along.
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