Home Sweet Home!

After almost 7 weeks away from home, it feels good to be back. That being said, we had a great experience as a family on our little adventure.

To update from our last entry: We left our little apartment in Klaipeda and went to the capital city of Latvia, Riga, for a few days. It is a very old city, whose Old Town is actually a World Heritage Site. We spent our days wandering though the old town, looking at lots of old buildings, taking in some of the Latvian Folk music festival, wandering through one of the largest markets in Europe.

The view of the city from the top of one of the churches.

Sitting in from of one of the "11 speaking rocks". Kevin is getting Kendra to read his Lonely Planet book and turning her into a true traveller. (Because everyone knows you don't travel anywhere without a Lonely Planet guidebook!)

Owen and his applesauce! For anyone who is familiar with the eating habits of our son, we didn't go anywhere without a jar of applesauce to mix his dinner with. It was the only way to get through mealtimes!

After a few days, we packed up just a small bag of stuff (we were able to leave most of our stuff at our hotel, as we were returning there later) and hopped a train to the small town of Sigulda.

Kendra keeping us all entertained on the train!!

It was a much different pace from the big city. We did lots of walking along paths, each took a ride down an Olympic training bobsled run (the bobsled was on wheels) and actually found a real playground for the kids to play on! Of course, we had to find a few castles to explore as well!

Kevin in the back seat of the bobsled, ready for his 30 second ride down!! It is amazing how fast we went!

Me and my little man checking out the scenery out the window of our gondola.

We each took Kendra on a tobaggan-on-a-rail ride. What a hoot!!

Owen simply enjoying life out of his stroller and on a real playground!!

We got rained on a few times in those days so that definitely changes how you spend your day! We returned to Riga for one night before taking an overnight ferry to Stockholm, Sweden. I'll save that for the next post as this one turned out to be quite long!