Dogs

Here is probably my best Sochi adventure. Myself and 4 friends were walking back to our hotel after a walk on the beach on our first day in Sochi. On the way we come across an ad for a Mexican restaurant. Of course we can’t pass up the opportunity for Mexican, so we make a pledge right there to find this place. (This pledge will actually start to consume us later on, but that’s a different story). Anyways, the ad had no address, so we pick a path and go. Now Sochi is pretty built up, but the path we chose somehow lead us into what was almost a little hidden valley town within Sochi. The road was small and bordered houses, each with a fence up to the road. Basically it was like walking down a deserted corridor, we really had now choice but to follow the one path. After about en minutes we realize that we can’t really get back to the main roads from where we are. We can either turn back or keep going. Seeing no reason to turn back we push on. After a few minutes we come to a separation of the path. One direction continues in our current direction. The other takes a winding way up the one side of this valley. We choose to continue our chosen path. This eventually leads us across the small stream at the center of the valley and up a short path.

Here is where we found a problem. Walking up this path, we start to worry a little bit, it seems to be leading to a dead in. We come into a clearing with a house and large garage. Looking around we see about 3 dogs laying in the grass, two in one spot, one in another. We seem to lock eyes and suddenly they realize they’re not alone. It begins with backing, then other dog joins in the noise making from an unseen area. We stop in the middle of the clearing. That is when we notice the dogs have come pretty close to surrounding us and are starting to cut off our exit. We start to back out and the dogs hold their ground. No more than a few feet from us, they are barking like crazy. Their leader seems the most eager, and as I walk past him his eyes are wide open, like big marbles, completely round and completely white. I never seen a dog look like that before, the dead eyes.

We continued to back out and the dogs continued to follow. After a couple more meters they finally retreat. The whole group is very aware as to how close that came to getting rather ugly. Although we all agreed we could’ve taken those uppity dogs, we thought it was best we didn’t have to try. We made our way back to the fork in the road and took the other path, which did turn out to be the correct road and we finally made it back to the hotel. But I wasn’t the only one to notice that dog’s dead eyes and upon further recollection they were pretty creepy.