Today’s the day. Off to Borjomi for the weekend with S and W. We had agreed to get an early start, so I was out my door by 8:55. Good thing too, because W called as I was getting into Batumi to tell me that the only marshrutka leaving for Borjomi was going at 10. It was stressful, but we made it on time (because in Georgia ‘leaving at 10' means sometime around 10:15 if everyone’s here we might think about going).
The marshrutka itself was packed. The driver actually pulled out a little folding stool to put in the aisle and there still weren’t enough seats for everyone. I lucked out and got a window seat, with S beside me, but both she and W ended up with people falling asleep on them. S was actually beside the aisle, so the kids on the stool were using her as a backrest. Not the most fun way to travel, but we got there.
In Borjomi, we found our hotel "Borjomi Kheobi" with no trouble. We had a little difficulty figuring out which door to enter once we got there, but a nice gentleman led us to the reception desk. It’s a medical clinic/ health spa, as well, so you can enter both of those buildings from the outside. The hotel is built upwards, but the buildings are joined at the first or second floor. Our room was on the third floor and the restaurant is on the fourth. We had to go down to the second floor and across to a different building before going back up to the fourth floor to reach the restaurant. It definitely helped work up an appetite.
Before dinner, we went for a walk up the street, just to explore and stretch a bit. We found a little store with loads of food and candy and alcohol. We all bought snacks and drinks. Back at the hotel, S wanted a nap, so W and I went to the "pool". Before we could go in, we had to get our skin checked for communicable diseases at the medical centre. It’s a "medicinal" sulphur pool and is about 1' deep. There was a small section that was maybe 3' deep, but I didn’t go in that part, cuz it was quite cold. Borjomi is in the mountains, so the weather was much chillier than at the coast.
When we’d both had enough of the pool, we went and woke S for dinner. The restaurant was playing our soap, so S and I were happy. The food was quite good, as well. It was all very Georgian, but still tasty. And there was milk with the tea. I haven’t had tea with milk and sugar since coming to my host family! After dinner we went back to the room and just chilled for the rest of the evening. We found a Russian music video channel that was playing some pretty decent American music, so we watched that. We also made use of the wireless connection to watch some Teen Girl Squad, until my computer decided it was done working and I had to shut it down.
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