Woke up feeling OK. We didn’t drink too much, so it was fine. I was the last person to fall asleep.
We made sandwiches for breakfast. We told the owners that we want the chan (hot tub thing) to be ready by 3 or 4. They told us it should be ready around 4. We then got ready and went to a place █████████████ found.
We got to a scary valley just as the most fitting Rain World soundtrack played. When we got to the cave, we realized there was way more people than expected.
It was so beautiful, but I forgot my glasses 😭. Was really sad about this during the whole walk. We then went further down to the canyon. Frolicked through the path, which was fun. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
We got to the cave entrance, and ofc it was paid. It was also full of old people. Like, full building of them, in which we were the only young people at all. That was kinda crazy. Next tour would only happen in 30 minutes, so we didn’t wanna wait, and decided to go further through the road, so we could take a different path back. It would be basically a big turnaround, but whatever.
After climbing back up for a bit, I started feeling that I could go on forever. The first 10 minutes of the climb are always the hardest, but afterwards I truly feel like I can just climb and climb without ever getting too exhausted. I frolicked again after I got onto the flat surface.
During the walk back to our car, I made a shortcut through the woods. I feel liberated when I finally stop walking through the paths and walk somewhere where nobody does.
We noted a few cool places while we went here, and now on the way back we were going to visit them. It started snowing, and I played the fitting music. We got to the DOT that was finally surrounded by the beautiful, serene fields that I’ve been missing for a long while. I feel like this has been the ultimate point for me. Even though the wind was howling, it was snowing, I felt happier than ever.
We also wanted to visit a tower, but because it was snowing, and we already had to go back home, we’ve decided to skip it for today. The owners texted us that the chan is almost ready. I was really excited, because it was snowing! Hot tub outside, while it was snowing sounded like the best bath of my entire life.
The owners also brought us a grill, so we went to the closest supermarket to buy something to grill. The Albert supermarket ended up having almost nothing interesting, so we bought a steak, half of chicken, and a few burger patties.
We got home and the chan was already hot. I got super excited so I quickly showered and went outside, half naked, to the chan. It was too hot. I think I actually burnt my legs a bit by trying it out. After around 10 minutes of sitting in cold weather, and them trying to salvage it using a tiny bucket, they told that they’ll bring a hose and cool it down with cold water. I went back inside the yurt and waited.
After a long while, it was finally told to be good, so I did the second attempt, and it was perfect. Then everyone else joined too. We got kabanosy and some alcohol with us.
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Honestly, I expected it to be more awkward. Nobody really gave a gaf, and we, albeit having a bunch of silent moments, still just chilled and enjoyed the time.
Owners were super nice and brought us some tasty sandwiches (Chlebíček) and some cake to the chan for free. We ate, drank slowly, and over time the conversations became longer and longer. We ended up spending around 3 hours in it. At the end, I already felt kinda exhausted from sitting in hot water for so long, and the smoke from the fire under us didn’t help, so I got out first, and everyone else followed a few minutes later.
Felt sooo tired and sleepy for quite some time. We had to get up and start grilling what we bought though. Started with the steak, which was cut into small pieces.
Also dropped in the chicken in there too. After some awkward grilling, we finally had the steak ready, and left chicken to continue to cook, while eating the steak. We also cooked the patties and made world’s shittiest burgers. The chicken ended up being still kinda pink and raw and had to be thrown out…
We had 3 hours til the New Year, so we started with the drinking, opened the LAYS GIGAPACK and played old people wordle (scrabble).
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By the time New Year came, I think we got to that "perfect drunkness amount". Started playing the traditional party/drinking songs from each of our countries and singing along. When New Year clocked we ran outside, with almost no clothes, to watch the fireworks go. I couldn’t last very long though and had to run back into the yurt.
We just continued dancing and singing along and it was super fun. Wrote dumb ass shit on Discord and switched around our phones, and all other usual drunk bullshit. This was pretty much my first ever typical drunk party I guess.
Eventually we got sleepy and one by one people fell asleep, and I was the last person to be awake again. For some reason I started really emotional, and just cried about everything that was going on in my life. I sobbed and sobbed until like 3 AM, til I finally gave in and fell asleep.
