snowboarding!

So I had a fantastic time this last weekend. I got invited to go snowboarding with three other people in a town called dobernishte, which is a good ten hour trip from borgas. I arrived in borgas from where i had spent the week working in tsarevo and went out with some friends for pizza and pool (see how much my life has changed). early the next day we took a train out across the country to a mountain town called razgrad, where we stayed with one of the other volunteers that boarded with us. razgrad sits in this little valley right between three of the largest mountain ranges in bulgaria, and the view was awesome. unfortunatly i neglected to bring a camera so you all will have to take my work on that one.
rentals and lift tickets at the slope combined only cost us 25 leva (around $15) a day, and food and drink on the mountain was another 3 leva ($2). not too bad at all. the place we boarded at was pretty small, but for the price im not complaining. the weather was great and it was good to get back on the mountain. i was really missing my snowboard, so this was just what i needed. if the mountain gets more snow i might head back out again in febuary for one more weekend of riding before my season ends, but not sure yet. the trip back to malko turnovo was probibly the only bad part of the trip. we left razgrad on a 6 pm bus to sofia, where we arrived just in time to catch the 10:15 night train to borgas. unfortunatly all the sleeping cars were full so we had to get regular seats, and happened to sit in the car with a broken heater. the train arrived at 6 in the morning and i walked across town to the bus station to take the 8:00 bus home. went straight from the bus station in malko turnovo to the office to start my day. a small sacrifice for a great weekend though.