Last (almost) posting on my vacation.....

Here r some of the last pics of last days in Estonia, a very exclusive country in the world. Some Manor houses and park Kadriorg with its palace.

Last couple of days of my vacation in Estonia, Aug 2008

Here will be pics of Macson, American cocker spaniel, who definitly deserves a book on his life written very soon.....he is the most interesting character on planet Earth
Then my mom and my baby brother, most cute baby brother on earth !!!
We went to see some manor houses out of town, which I will also post some pics and the other day took a walk in park Kadriorg, with 2 palaces, one of them being a museum and one a presidential palace. We also did many other stuff, but I did not walk around like a complete cockoo tourist and take pics on my every step.....sadly, i should have:) I should have taken more pics ....oh well.....i will have memories, they would just be better to archive with photos.
BTW, if u click on a pics u will see it in bigger version and then just click BACK button to get back to the blog.

Evening in town, my school and my home next to each other

here is one of these few times i met with Maire.....well i spent more time with Travis:) and some pics os Tallinn again..
and a new Mazda 6 I was cruising around

Fairy Tale town -Tallinn Old Town

So, Tallinn old town is really old, it was started 1000 yrs ago and most of it was bulit in 1100, 1200,1300,1400 year
It is really amazing and whenever u want to see a real fairy-tale town, go to Estonia, go to Tallinn....it is seriously hard to capture its beauty in a pics.....u can be a judge

The Old Town Tallinn

The next day was very lovely.....actually i think it ws raining in AM, of course....would be strange otherwise...anyways, afternoon was lovely and we went for a nice walk in the old town with my gf and did some window shopping, she actually did a lot of shopping too and got some cute stuff...i tried to save money, as I have no need for some more clothes.

NIght with my gf-nds

So, we did not get too good pics,...,...u know, let me tell u, in few yrs, u will think that this pics was GREAT, so I will post some pics from 2006...since they did not like the pics I took this time......I will post them in 2 yrs, i think they will like them then A LOT hahahaha
So these r the girls I used to work with in a Language School and teach English, they both have different career now.... very important jobs .....

Rakvere- cute little town in Eastern part of Estonia

The next day we went to a SPA and water centre in little town called Rakvere. It is a new spa, many saunas, pools and they have a huge old fort on top of a hill..
They have a SPA on every corner in Estonia, what else would u do in long cold winters after skiing, go to a SPA and and SAUNA and have some beer and vodka:)

LAst night and back to Tallinn

So, u can read about my last night titled "horror comedy" ......and the next evening it looked like in the pics above ..........back in Tallinn, my hometown, my birthtown, towers town as they call it in a song.....

TARTU- university town

then, one day we went to Tartu, were i went to University that was founded by a Swedish king many hundreds of years ago.... we met up with my course mate who is expecting her second child and went to a very lovely restaurant....
by the way, have I said, how much Travis enjoyed everything we ever did there....

Rain and rain and more rain and in between 2008

So, it was raining all the time, but in between the rains it looked like this....
and Travis had fun with Georg, my gf son............and Madison had fun in outhouse...and we had lunch in between moving grandmother with my only aunt, her daughter, mom etc...

Hard work on the farm

well, then i did not take pics many days, for different reasons....rain, problems with grandmother etc and her move (long story) she cannot be by herself anymore, she is either with my mom, my aunt or in a small nursing home in the same village, it is actually a very nice place, like a small hotel, with 20 peeps there only. She is not staying there too much time, just sometimes, when she becomes quite difficult for everyone to handle.
Then Maire and her kids Madison and Travis came along with my other friend from Tallinn and his 6 yrs old daughter who was perfect mate for Madison. We had a lot of fun again. I also hosted BBQ at my farm house and some other friends also came over.
Madison and Kati were reapiting each other, one saying things in English and one in Estonian. And finally when Maire left, Travis announced that he will stay with me and he did and anjoyed it 1000% he is an amazing child and he loved all the dogs or any other animals and everything he saw and experienced.

Day # 5

On Day 5 I drove about 200 miles to my countryside in Southern Estonia, with my grandmother and mom and I did not take any pics. I did take a pic the next day as I was at my friends wife's bday party with her brother and his fam, we BBQ, ate, drank, had a lot of fun just talking away around the fire in their yard. Here is my firnd and neighbour at countryside and his older daughter (a model girl) and her uncle. By clicking on a pics u can make it bigger and just use "back" button to return to the blog. Finally most peeps were in the house and us three were sitting on their steps....guess, drinking estonian vodka.

One of the most beautiful places on the Earth, Southern Estonia little place called Rouge

So, this is the place I have spent all my childhood summers and school breaks....made hay for grandmothers cows, played with all my friends, weeded vegetables and potatoes (i hated it) picked wild strawberries, blueberries and raspberries and mushrooms in the forests, swam in the 7 lakes, played in the creeks with grandmothers dogs...
this is how it looks....
and I am now headed there to my farm house to work hard on my house with my mom and brother. I took this pic couple of years ago, since this time, there wasn't a moment like that.....or i did not get a chance....
Lapsepolvemaa......

Sunday night back in the city of Tallinn

As u can see it's still cloudy, but it's nice and warm and this pics is taken already before sunset and since the sky was not too clear as most of the time, the pic is not soo good colors....i will have better ones later ...here i just wanted to gon in order with my vacation days...
It is taken from 24 floor from a restaurant I went with my mom and brother's gf to meet my childhood gf and her husband before they went on a boat to go back home in Finland.
Will be continued, the next day I am off to get my grandmother from my aunts and going to a countryside.....

Laulasmaa Resort

More pics of and i mixed the name up, its Laulasmaa Resort, u can see it thru the trees and my mom going and me and the seashore...

Scrolling up, Sunday, Day # 4

Ok, u need to find a title Estonian Summer 2008 and scroll up from there, since it all goes in order as i post them. Meaning backwards:) Sorry...i guess I am technically behind. So, my fourth day i had to beg my fam to go to a spa. It was actually the warmest day, starting at some time in the afternoon. about 90 F
We went to a spa and watercenter again at the seashore Lohusalu, just to the west from Tallinn. I got a massage and could not believe that it is possible to feel so relaxed. It was finnaly starting to be better with a jetlag. First we stopped at the cliff and lookout point and later we went to the sea just like that, just with feet in, and the sea was as calm as a lake.....and as it is before the storm...
It's my brother and is gf in a pic.