My second day was unforgettable. There was a breakfast table full of delicious stuff when I woke up. We had very nice breakfast and then Nikolai opened the vodka bottle. We sipped some vodka and they teach me a new card game. On afternoon I went to look for a restaurant wagon. In a restaurant wagon I got the menu but it was only in Cyrillic alphabets so I didn´t understand it at all. There were 15 heavy doors between my wagon and the restaurant wagon and I had to open and close them manually one by one. That was actually my first and the last time when I went to the restaurant wagon because locals said it´s overprized and the weren´t any special. On the way back to my wagon I met Sergei and Juri. They showed their cabin and they offered me some vodka and snacks. Later I went to my cabin and there was waiting again table full of traditional Russian food. We ate well and had some more vodka. Then Sergei asked if I want to play cards and meet he´s friends. I played cards with Sergei and he´s friends and had more vodka. It was crazy night and on next morning I woke up and thought that where the hell I am? I was sleeping in Sergei´s cabin (they had one empty bed). I thought that, was it good idea to drink so heavily and on the way back to my wagon, I met some of my new friends and they were shouting: Markuuush, vodka? I had bad hangover and I said: njet, njet and pointed to my head. On third day I shake hand with many people and everybody seemed to know my name. I had the feeling that everybody know monkey but monkey don´t know anybody. I realized that now I had broken the ice with locals.

I took very quietly my third day and just played cards, read a book and recovered from my hangover. On fourth morning Andrei woke me up around 8am and ask me to join them (Andrei and Nikolai). We started to play cards and opened the vodka bottle. After the bottle Andrei and Nikolai went to sleep. I went also and woke up again around 1pm and then we finished another bottle. I was wondering why they wanted to drink so much so early. Nikolai hop off from train when we were in Kansk and headed up north back to his home. Then I realized that we drank for his goodbye.

Natalie didn´t like it too much when Andrei drank, so usually we hang around in Sergei´s or Alexei´s cabin and played cards and had once in a while a little bit of vodka. On one day Andrei passed out around 4pm and was still sleeping when I went to bed. I had problems to get sleep and in middle of the night Andrei woke me up because he couldn´t sleep neither. He had bought six beers and we started to drink them and played cards. After the beers we bought one vodka bottle and demolished it. After that we didn´t have any problems to get sleep. I still have some other stories about my train experience and later I will write more.