so ended up spending 3 days in Ukraine on my way back to Vienna. But as always, that didn't go as planned. Ate something bad on Monday night in Vilnius, woke up with a very upset stomach Tuesday morning. Thought I, um, expelled the contents thoroughly, but I guess not. Went through passport control in Vilnius and bought some stomach meds at the pharm, got to security, put my stuff in the trays for the xray and walked forward, girl asks for my passport and boarding pass, and I pause. uh oh, I think. she asks again, and more, uh oh, from my head. She looks annoyed and then steps back as I puke into my mouth. I hold it all in, and it's ready to come out my nose, I look around frantically, she looks around too, I motion to an empty tray in the stack by the machine, she nods, I puke into tray. Say sorry, then look for somewhere to put it, she motions to put it back where I grabbed it. Ok, so I do. Then hand her my passport and boarding pass, she nods, gives em back, and I go through the metal detector. No one says a word. i'm apologizing to everyone and they act like nothing happened. I sort all my stuff out of my trays, repack carry on (laptop, charger etc) and notice the tray is still sitting there, full of puke, and people are just walking by it. weird.
Get to Kiev, Alex picks me up, I tell him I not well, he laughs. We got to Zbroyar where he works as head of marketing. I get to see cool shooting facility and manufacturing plant. They make great AR15s and AR10 based rifles as well as their own design bolt action sniper rifle. Sit down with CEO/Owner head engineer and talk shop for a bit, when it hits me again, uh oh, I get up with panic and Alex and him tell me where to go, barely make it, puke for 15 minutes straight. 4 bottles of water and last nights remains go everywhere. Come back to them laughing at me in the conference room, sit down and break fancy chair 15 minutes later. Time to head back to hotel where I spend the next 1.5 days sweating and expelling the evil growing in me. Last day I wake up and feel human, go see a small amount of the city, which is friggin amazing. And the women, my god the women. Go out for a great dinner that night in the heart of downtown Kiev, which, really is where my hotel was (Dnipro hotel if you ever go, it's awesome and cheap). Then back to the hotel and discover, there is a strip club attached to my hotel, hmmmm, no sleep that night at all.... next morning cancel taxi as Alex has chased down a lawyer for me to meet. Head there, dude says no problem to get my guns and ammo back (if the ammo hasn't been stolen, errr misplaced), and he's willing to do it for cheap as I seem like a nice guy. Race to airport and spend 1hr waiting for customs to get their thumbs out of their ass and sign my export permit for my mags, that the week before were a non issue. Then check in, head to security and the line is 2hrs long, plane starts boarding in 30 minutes. Fuck. See business class line (which I am flying as it was cheaper than economy), it's 45 minutes long according to signs. Show a hot security chick my pass, she laughs and guides me through to the front of the line (to many comments, which while I couldn't understand, were obviously not happy). Throw crap in tray, realize I have a big water bottle, almost full, with me, put it beside tray and dude working machine throws it in tray, I walk through detector and make beeps, no idea why, no one says a word. trays come through machine and my water bottle is still there. Grab my stuff, look at watch, hmmm, 15 minutes until boarding, still time for business lounge.
Now in Oparany for a match Sunday, borrowing a buds gun and ammo, see how this goes. Lithuania was a cock up, gun malf'd a few times, I malfed a ton. Ammo was good, when it fit the mag. Biggest problem was gun was zeroed to shoot above front sight, not behind it, so on far targets I had misses as they'd go over the top. 65% of Eduardo, the match winner. Usually shoot 85% of him minimum.
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