Trakai Bog

We are off until Friday. Georgia and I started the day at our usual location and did a little studying.

Then we walked around with Dan. Visited an antique store on University Gatve that had a really fascinating collection of antique cameras. We looked through them and then Georgia and I went to a basket of some gem necklaces –not the expensive ones to finger through. A lady came out and said that these are not to be touched because kids break them. I asked how is one supposed to find a necklace they liked if they were all tangled up and together. She did not have the answer to that but insisted that we do not touch them. We decided to make her day a little better and left.   

After lunch we went to Trakai Bog. I did not find where this is and this probably explains why the place has 0 visitors. Irina has been here a while ago and she directed us to it.

When we arrived there was a small area where a mass grave for 1446 local Jews is located. Apparently when the news came that Nazis are in the area, some local citizens decided to take matters into their own hands and help out a little. And they did. Kids, women, men, the usual. Very nice raspberries close by.

The bog, itself is about 5 minutes from Trakai driving.. There is a 3.4km trail around a bog – parts of it on the wooden boards, parts through the forest. This was the busiest forest we’ve been to in terms of animals – we saw 2 lizards, multitude of frogs, and even a work of squirrel chewing something up high up on the tree. The smells were great. We saw lots of different berries – even ripening linden berries. Isabella frequently got off the stroller to do her own picking. 

It gets a bit on a boring side after a while but Dan ran to the forest and grabbed a car.

When we came back to the city, we went for a walk with the kids. At the large square near the KGB museum there was a great number of families and kids blowing bubbles on the lawns – all sorts of bubbles. Kids were running around popping them. That was so enjoyable! Kids had a blast.

On the way back we stopped at some kind of alternative art center after hearing sounds of the drums. There were 5 drummers inside. Georgia and Isabella were very excited and jumped on the sofas that were lining up the wall there for a while. 

Another little bit of exciting news today. We did a photoshoot a few years ago. Recently the photographers got back to us to ask for a permission to use Georgia's picture for a Tavo Vaikams magazine. We said OK. That's so funny - a little American girl is on the cover of a Lithuanian magazine.