Monday, January 14, 2013

A Winter Wonderland


Riga has turned into a winter wonderland! It's cold, about 10 degrees F (-12C) during the day, with snow on the ground and some snowfall off and on.  We stay in our apartment more but sometimes we hate hibernating and have to get out and see the world. This post will show you what we have seen in the month of January.

Two way traffic streets become one way traffic streets...wait your turn.

Lidos decked out in Holiday fashion.


A rare bit of sunlight that day! 

A quick sunset...nothing new there.



Walking to the grocery store because our car....

...looks like this and it isn't always worth the effort of digging out.

Holiday decorations still up....





Ping pong balls falling from the sky...
Not really, just snowflakes in our camera's flash.


Latvian folk tales....



Live Christmas trees..
Rabbit village....
The village was quite large, with trees,  little buildings and straw scattered on the ground.  The little houses had warming lights and straw in them when the rabbits got tired of being outside, but they seemed to be enjoying the falling snow that night.  This picture has four bunnies in it, we didn't count all the rabbits in the village but there were at least 30.

How do you catch a unique rabbit? 
 Unique up on it! 

 What do you call 99 rabbits stepping backwards? 
A receding hare line 

Where do rabbits work? 
At IHOP restaurants! 


Why did the bunny build herself a new house? 
 She was fed up with the hole thing! 


One day we woke up to sunshine and had to take a drive into the winter wonderland....






And caught the sun going down about 3:00PM...





Winter is wonderful!


1 comment:

  1. I am so grateful for your blog. Our daughter just got called to the Baltic Mission (speaking Estonian) and leaves for the MTC in March. There's not a whole lot out there for us to learn about what mission life in the Baltics is like. I'm glad to know she'll be with wonderful people who love their mission and the Lord. Keep the posts coming!!

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