Leo @Leo@tincanphone.club

Yesterday we saw Sophy's friends, walked around a park, saw a church (a common theme of this trip), and Sophy cooked a traditional Georgian dinner (Satsivi with shoti, sulguni, and cucumber and tomato salad). Trying to make the most of my time here so I don't lose my mind!

Also all meals are a 2-3 hour affair minimum. I am enjoying the pace here (except when it comes to the police officers)

Tea with Sophy's friends Saba and Mari. Everyone in Georgia has a two syllable nickname they go by that ends with a vowel. So Sophy is actually Sopo here.

Spent most of the afternoon fighting with the airlines but I was able to get a travel voucher to use once I get my passport returned! I will need to pay the difference but I do have travel insurance so I will try to get in touch with them as well.

Sophy had a work taking photos at a jujitsu tournament today so I had a solo adventure to the hot baths and then I met her at the tournament and we went to a fabulous puppet show!

Today Sophy and I went to Mtskheta, a neighborhing city to Tbilisi. We visited two churches (but I only got a picture of one, Svetitskhoveli Cathedral), had some ice cream and coffee at a little touristy spot on the river, and dinner on a nice patio!

We called the police officer this morning and unfortunately got nothing helpful. The forensics on my gabapentin has not come back yet and only after it comes back does a judge decide what to do with it. Sophy said she'll talk to her aunt to see if we can start finding a judge preemptively so that it can get processed as soon as the test comes back. Either way it sounds pretty unlikely that this will all be resolved by my 6am flight on Monday so I will likely be contacting the airlines about figuring out the best way to reschedule my ticket when I don't know my return date.

I am being very brave about the food on this trip. So far the eggplants are the only thing I've turned down 💪🏼

Oh and the white stuff is called Elarij. It's grits mixed with sulguni cheese and is extremely stretchy. You use it to dip the chicken sauce in.

Dinner out for more Georgian food. In the far left is badrijani (eggplant with walnut), in the middle is Megrelian kharcho with nuts (its chicken in some kind of sauce), Ojakhuri (pork barbecue with potatoes which was my favorite). We also had Georgian beer which tasted like beer (so, gross) and pear flavored lemonade which was very sweet but it grew on me (unlike the beer which only got worse).