Baltic Tour

Kelly, Giuliana and I spent the week driving through the Baltics. We rented a car and headed out Monday morning for the longest drive...8 hours. Giuliana did great! We weren't sure how she would do since we don't have a car in Lithuania and she doesn't ride in one very often. We took a few stops along the way. First stop was to see the Baltic Sea for the first time! We were in Latvia and parts of it were still frozen, but it was beautiful!

G didn't want to walk on the sand.

You can see the ice in the ocean behind Kelly and G

That night we made it to Tallinn, Estonia. Because we are so far north, we have sunlight until about 9pm, so we walked around the Old Town and found a Texas restaurant. They even had Dr. Pepper!!

Entering Tallinn Old Town

Old Town square

Watching birds

The next day we took a ferry to Helsinki, Finland. The ferry ride was only 1.5 hours so we just went for the day and came back to Tallinn that night. They even had ferries named after G and I!

Baltic Queen

Baltic Princess

YUMM!!!

Poor Ronald! I guess they don't like McDonalds in Finland:(

Wednesday we walked around Tallinn and then headed south to Riga, Latvia. When we made it to Riga we setled in to our hotel and then walked around. I forgot to charge the camera so we didn't get a lot of pictures from Riga.

St Mary's Dome Cathedral (largest church in the Baltics)

4th largest organ in the world was under construction

What are you looking at?

Our last day of the trip we walked around Riga a little and then headed back to Lithuania. We stopped by the Hill of Crosses in Siauliai. It is a hill in the country that has thousands of crosses on it. During the Soviet time, the Soviets would tear down the crosses but the Lithuanians would keep rebuilding. Now people go to plant their own cross.

Headed home:)!!!!