I want to have a summary of our wonderful Lithuania trip here. Will wrote about most of it and posted photos on Facebook, so I'll mostly just collect that here; click through on the links.
Saturday, March 9: Travel on two trains from Ivano-Frankivsk to Warsaw, overnight there
Sunday, March 10: Travel from Warsaw to Kaunas on two more trains, bus to Klaipeda
Monday, March 11: Curonian Spit
Tuesday, March 12: Bogdan's 13th birthday! Tour postponed for weather. Amber store, coffee shop, LCC, presents, pizza instead.
Wednesday, March 13: The amber tour
Thursday, March 14: Apparently Will didn't post any more about the trip? On Thursday everyone was tired, and the weather wasn't great for being outside. Bogdan and I couldn't stay in, though, so we headed down to the ferry and went across to the spit relatively early. It was so foggy that we could barely see the ferry, much less where it was taking us. We hunted for amber, and since we were pretty much the first and only people on the beach, we got some bigger pieces right away. Then we were frozen. We went back to the ferry landing, to see if we could figure out the coffee/hot chocolate machine there. I consulted with Jaan, who was at work in the city, and he made it "magically" dispense hot drinks for us. Well, he did it with an app on his phone, but it certainly felt like magic, in the midst of a cold, foggy forest scene with no people anywhere around us, when the machine just started talking and making treats for us. Will and Raia joined us a little later, and we went back to a good spot we had found on the beach for more amber. Bogdan and Raia camped out in cold water and collected quite a bit. Then we ate lunch that Will had brought, they saw deer, and went back for a little more amber. After that we went back to the city, joined the rest of the family, visited bookstores (wow). That evening we went out for dinner, one last time all together. I'll put a bunch of photos from this day below:
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| "Magic" hot chocolate |
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| Pieces with holes are special. |
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| See the deer? | |
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| Goodbye, Jaan! |
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| New book from used book store |
Saturday, March 16: Bus all day from Warsaw to Ivano-Frankivsk, reunion with Leo, end of amazing trip
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| Quick and easy border crossing |
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The whole trip was so wonderful that I can't even express it in words. I had a great time looking back through the photos and what Will wrote to pull this together today, too. Thank you for reading!
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My heart sings to know the delight this trip brought each of you. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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