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Do you know how "exciting" a holiday can be if you don't plan it thoroughly? Guess not, as you are definitely not such a ninny as I am! The Labor Day in Ukraine is the time when you take a magic tablecloth, go to the grassy glade where flies start to steal and fress your food. However, my friend and I are not that sort of people who will eat and smack lips, so we went to the Carpathians to feed the mosquitoes. We packed our rucksacks and got under headway. On the way to the root of the mountain a jeep gave us a cast and we shocked a local driver with our spectacular idea to ascend it. He told us in a strict voice that "Mountains can't stand indifference". I gulped. Stared at my friend. He looked as if had swallowed a hedgehog. We arrived and got out of the car. There was a thick covering of snow, maybe the driver turned to Antarctica, not to the Carpathians. I hurried to him to define more exactly but he cut lucky. We had no choice but to go up. We put on raincoats as the rain drizzled. With every step the rain was becoming torrential. I started to panic as it was dangerous to continue ascending. I clutched a branch of a spruce and started to beg my friend to descend. We looked down. It seemed easier to go up than down. A brilliant idea dawned on my companion: he took off his raincoat, we sat on it and had a slide on the ice and snow. Like in the childhood! For children - hills, for adults - mountains, for us - the highest peak of Ukraine! We got soaked through, were exhausted, but couldn't stop laughing! If only we had known that we had to stay there for a night in a tent as no car came that day! Sometimes it seems to me, that mosquitoes are more intelligent and logical than I. Fortunately, we didn't meet them in the mountains as I suppose they would have laughed me down.