Don't have time to browse through 40+ pages of photos? Here you can check out a brief summary of my life in pictures.

I was on the phone with my mom and dad the other day, remembering all the couches I slept on over the years while skiing and instructing around Colorado. Some of my greatest memories, like the Kiwi boys I stayed with one winter in Keystone and the night Carin and I sat on our front porch at 690 10th St. drinking margaritas and singing Cowboy Take Me Away, will live on without photos. Fortunately, we did have the camera much of the time and here I have collected my favorite photos.

Well Gedas took this photo when we were out in Klaipeda in November for a photo session. I usually look awful in his pictures, but here it was just such a nice day, crisp but sunny, and the colors were so strong that day. It was so great to spend the day in Klaipeda instead of in the office!

Well how could this photo not be included in a list of all time favorite photos? Not only is it Adrienne's wedding, and we both look pretty good, but we're holding a bottle of Starka! And, this weekend I felt was sort of like a reunion with my cousins. Growing up, we were so close, but I felt we had really become estranged in the years that followed graduation from high school. This was the first time we had all gotten together in years and that alone made the $900 bucks I spent on the plane ticket worth it!

Team Virskus cleaned up at the 2004 Lithuanian National Ski Champs in L'Alpe d'Huez, France and my brothers are my favorite people to ski with, even though Jason doesn't like to wait for me! I'm pretty sure no other family got as many medals as we did, and I have to say, if I do say so myself, we looked pretty good doing it too!

Christmas 2003 was spent at Katka's house in Slovakia. Here, Joey, Jason and I are crossing the frozen lake in Strbske Pleso. It's too cool of a photo and it was too fun of a trip to not be mentioned!

Before leaving for Europe, I spent 3 months in Southern California. Joey came out for a weekend and we went around to visit all his old haunts. We also went to the Getty for one amazing afternoon. This is a photo from that day.

After finally graduating from the University of Colorado, I went to New York for three months to work at a photo agency. I wasn't that impressed with the Big Apple when I first got there, but by the end, I learned to appreciate it, if not to love it. My friend Markus, who I studied with a year before at CU, came to NY for 4 days and stayed with me at my friend Christian's house. We had an amazing time from the start. I took him all over, including to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where we took this photo in the Egyptian room.

I love the Sleeping Bear sand dunes in Michigan, and I love this photo because it's with Joey, and the water is so blue, and the sand is so white, and my orange shorts and the guy down the dune in the yellow shirt compliment it so nicely. This was actually the trip that I took across country with Malin and Anders, from Colorado to New York. We picked up Joey from the airport in Traverse City on this day and went up to see the dunes.

Moab is one of those places that I will always dream about. While living in Colorado, I got to go about twice per year, once in the fall, and once in the spring. I believe in camping in Moab, and I prefer to sleep under the stars. I love the red dust that gets caked on your skin and stays with you until you get home. I've been with my ski team, and with my brother and with my friends. This year, I took Malin and Anders to ride Slickrock.

I've had a lot of good ski days in Aspen, but this day with Christian up at Snowmass will always stand out as being the best. The weather was perfect, and he's a great ski partner. The day before we had been up in Highlands Bowl, and the day after I got home to find out that I had not gotten a Fullbright Scholarship. I didn't care though, skiing that Sunday in February was just that good.

I tore it up in France this year, winning the SL, GS and overall trophy at the 2003 Lithuanian National Championships. It was a heck of a week! Here, you see an ecstatic me after winning the SL. I love this photo a) because I look so cute in my braids and b) because it's with all the boys!

The Duclos family finally got to come to visit the Virskai in the States. Unfortunately, they had to leave Aurélie at home. Élodie was there though and we had a heck of a time riding bikes around Mackinaw Island and taking pictures. It was a truly spectacular day.

Somehow I found myself back at Lac du Bois-Hack this summer. Here are Anais and I at I-Day. It seems with the midnight canoe trips, mais poppée, thunderstorms and the aurora borealis, it wasn't a bad way to spend a summer, in the end. The best thing about camp, is no matter how old you are, you get to be a kid again.

Click here to read more about this summer at Lac du Bois-Hackensack.

I've made a lot of trips to Moab, but this spring, I went with Jason and his two friends. After two days of intense riding, sun and mayhem, we drove back to Colorado, stopping in Grand Junction to be the first family to meet our new cousin, 6 day old Ian. Covered with red Moab dust, Uncle Joe and Luann still let us hold him. I'm tired, sunburned and windblown in this photo but I have always loved it, I think for all those reasons. Incidentally, that's the last time I saw the necklace I'm wearing, a gift from Carin when she came back from a wedding in Lithuania. I lost it at a gas station in Vail on the way home.

Five months pregnant and desperate for her last trip before having kids, Katka flew to the States for two weeks, one of which we spent cruising around southern Florida in a red, Mustang convertable. Here we're sitting in front of my mom's friend's house in Palm Beach.

In 2001 I applied to the Son's of Norway for a scholarship to Oslo Summer School. I didn't get it, but they did hire me to teach at their summer camp for American kids 60km north of Trondheim. I used their travel money to fly to Paris, buy two eurail passes, and travel for 3 months. I went to Lithuania to visit Irma and meet 6 month old Domas. Here we are with her husband, Arunas, on a hot day at the lake.

I wanted to stay in France for Christmas the year I lived there, but I didn't have anyone to ski with. So my mom sent Boey over to spend the holidays and go skiing with me in the Alps. When Joe arrived, he went straight to Rennes from the airport. Then we didn't go through Paris on our way to the mountains. We arrived back in Paris early in the morning 31 December 1998 and went straight out of the city to my friend's house in the suburbs. Then, right at noon, I took Joe by Metro straight to the center of the city. We got off the Yellow Line 1 and took the escalator to La Place d'Etoile. Joe's first glimpse of Paris, was of the Arc de Triomphe.

I was eight I think the year that the Virskai and the Lessards went to Hilton Head for Thanksgiving. In typical VL style, Adrienne, Ashleigh and I had matching bathing suits. Playing on the beach in Hilton Head is one of the strongest memories of my childhood.