One thing that is visibly different here is the high percentage of young people who are pregnant or pushing carriages. An informant explained to me that about 1 year ago, the economic situation was looking up and lots of young couples decided to start or expand their families.
But besides all of this: July in Vilnius is marriage month, it seems. With my friends in Kaune (Kaunas), we counted 7 brides just on one cathedral square. We counted 16 brides in total on Saturday. We also ran into 5 bachelor and bachelorette parties...
So, one of the parties was comprised of two grooms in drag (short gold dresses) flanked by about 25 "nuns". While me and my friends were enjoying ice cream Katedros Aiksteje ("in Cathedral Square"), the nuns came up to us and decided to pray and talk. Don't worry, these parties are generally good-natured, one other group was handing out balloons to little kids. I said, "Aš iš Amerikos, Aš nekalbu ir nesuprantu lietuviškai" ("I'm from America, I don't speak or understand lithuanian") and they replied that I was obviously lying because they could tell by my accent that I was Lithuanian and not from America.
hmm.
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