{"id":4912,"date":"2012-10-13T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T22:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2012-10-13T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T22:37:54","slug":"satuerday-night-chai-turns-9-and-more-of-vilnius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/10\/13\/satuerday-night-chai-turns-9-and-more-of-vilnius\/","title":{"rendered":"Satuerday night – Chai turns 9 (and more of Vilnius)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice day back home. The big news today is that our beautiful dog Chai Mariano Cohn turns 9 years old today..<\/p>\n

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\"\"She’s gettign to be quite a mature lady. She’s been my friend, my comfort, my alarm clock and my running buddy for a long time. Sam loved (loves) her too
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Happy birthday girl !!!!<\/p>\n

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Today began with Gabes soccer game at MMUU.. you can see the heavy frost still in the shade at 10 AM !<\/p>\n

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a few weeks ago we were standing here sweating in shorts !<\/p>\n

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then back home for a breakfast birthday for chai. She got a squeezy toy and a puzzle (believe it or not) .> She had to fgure out how to open it to get soem cheese. Didn’t take long.. smart girl !<\/p>\n

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then a nice walk up in Honey hollow. The leaves are past peak.. but still so pretty and peaceful. i needed the down time !<\/p>\n

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Satori.. is wondering why chai’s getting all the attention today (Well. .she got a squeezy toy too.. they both want to play while i’m typing !)<\/p>\n

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Couldn’t resist the cool water.. it might have just been in the 40’s .. but I can’t resist cold water.\u00a0 so i took a little dip in the creek. . it really wakes you up.. and gets you back in your body in an instant.<\/p>\n

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then back for chais birthday dinner.. eggs, cheese and bacon !!!<\/p>\n

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OK.. thats it for today.. what follows are some pics from this week.. Here’s a few shots of Riga Latvia..\u00a0\u00a0 gotta love this poster !<\/p>\n

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I drove with Ugis , joe and simone from Riga to Vilius.. we went near the town where my great, great uncle was from.. we found his tombstone in israel . You can read about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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we were also only 60 km from Kaunas where others in my family were.. No one still left after the Holocaust.. It was strange being there knowing that past..<\/p>\n

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next morning.. I was at the Vilnius TV station by 6:30 AM.. first stop.. makeup (yuck)\u00a0\u00a0 then on tv where 25 percent of the population of the country watched me talk for 10 minutes.. so funny !
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by the time we left the tv station the moon and venus where against a brightening sky.. i always love it like this.
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Here we are with my handlers\u00a0 ready to go into the IBM meeting.. you always need a hulahoop at ibm meetings.
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\nthis is the famous TV tower in vilnuis. Sever folks were killed trying to defend this tower from soviet tanks in 1991 ~<\/p>\n

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\nHere are the students at Vilnius university after my talk..<\/p>\n

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one of the TV ladies tried the hoop
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\nthere was a redbull truck in the lot.. here’s one for Sam !(we always pour the first sip out for him )<\/p>\n

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then another talk at IBM.. great audience !
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then soem sightseeing at night of the old city.. the one my ancestors called home
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then a lovely dinner<\/p>\n

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\na great walk back to the hotel<\/p>\n

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\nand a long 8 hour flight where i worked the entire way..<\/p>\n

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home to vermont
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\nwhere it was snowing !<\/p>\n

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ok.. gotta run.. more tomorrow.<\/p>\n

happy birthday chai<\/p>\n

nite all, note sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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Nice day back home. The big news today is that our beautiful dog Chai Mariano Cohn turns 9 years old today..   She’s gettign to be quite a mature lady. She’s been my friend, my comfort, my alarm clock and my running buddy for a long time. Sam loved (loves) her too Happy birthday girl … Continue reading Satuerday night – Chai turns 9 (and more of Vilnius)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[604],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chai-turns-9"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4914,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}