Day 8 - Making the plans

Nothing thrilling unless you don't count the barbeque flavored mini-bloodwurst sausages that we found in Maxima today. If you like bloodwurst, you would die for this BBQ flavored variety. We are so lucky to be here.

Anyway, it rained the whole day. Irina managed to get the kids over to her place where they'd stayed for the large part of the day until we got the car and picked them up. We were at home. The kids really enjoyed themselves.

Dan and I walked around during lunch. Had a doner kebab from the new fast food joint on Pilies. It is lousy. The staff is really unfriendly too. Can't believe we already have eaten there twice.

Then we decided to check out the new galery at the beginning of Pilies. Apparently the entry fee is 1LT. We took a free look around and saw similar paintings with the same woman all around. So we decided to skip on that. Now I am thinking that it might have been deliberate and there are other paintings with other women if you only shell out that 1LT (or 37 cents). It might also be interesting to go in to see the building inside. Maybe we will go tomorrow with Georgia. Decisions, decisions.

Coffee Inn from Pilies moved across the street. The new location is even better - there is a cozy separate room with the tables and couches. Don't know how they stay in business with that much real estate not really generating much of the return.

Alicia, Natasha and Andrei came over for dinner. It was very nice to have them over and we had a good time. The story with the parasite was sort of muffled over. Alicia says she spoke with that woman and she would be giving her back the keys. We got a call from Dan's mom's friend about some contacts to be reaching out to us shortly. It could probably work short term.

What else? Having a high chair makes a huge difference. Previously we went through elaborate setup with Isabella with one person holding her and another maneuvering the food in her mouth while protecting themselves from her swiping the food off onto them. The car seat seems to be the top part from the two part infant car seat. There are stickers on the side showing how to attach it to the car with the seat belts using various protuberances on the carseat.But such setup is flimsy and carseat is being held in place by the front seat. Plus, Isabella is too big for it and has to keep her feet holded when riding. We got her a new seat from the car rental company. It is better. It is a big booster seat with some stickers showing how to use it on the 7kg babies. And it is front facing. Maybe there is a different attitude about the baby car safety here. But not to sorry - I think she will be grown out of her 12month clothing by the time we are back.

We reserved hotel Alma and a car for our stay in Brussels next month. Hopefully there won't be any surprises there. Will need to make plans for our trips to Palanga and Tallinn later this month.