2,3,4....week

Monday, February 3rd - The 1st container arrived.

It was somewhat dramatic because it was huge and they could not pull into our side street.  They had to park on the main road.  They lifted container of the truck and then mover guys started brining box by box - 244 of them.  Most surprising thing was that movers or any other maintenance person, takes their shoes off when entered into the house.

The boys also started school on Monday, February 3rd.  Here are a few photos:

Tallinn European School (TES)

Cameron got his 1st locker ever.  It's a bog dear for a third grader.  Tad likes to take mini naps after school in the taxi and Mag is making a project - painting a plastic bottle black and then he would add eyes and posibly a tail.

Friday, February 7th - we received six long waited guest from Lithuania: Jurgitas mom and dad, brother Darius, white Ingrida and cousins Dite and Une.  What a fun weekend we all had.

One of many fun things we did was try our "Russian" style sauna in the house.  Here is a link for more info: Russian "banya" So the sauna is heated by burning wood which heats the stones that are in the sauna room, then you poor some water on hot stones and produce more heat and steam.  But we had no matches to fire up the stove :-)  - that's a problem.  I search high and low and finally found some in my make-up bag (not sure why there were in there, but I tend to had odd things around with me)

Meeting with Lithuanian Ambassador to Estonia Neilas Tankevicius
Chris and I were asked by the US Ambassador Jeffrey D. Levine to represent him at the Lithuanian Independence day celebration.  It was a fun night for me to "un-confuse" most Estonian national Lithuanians that I am a Lithuanian but a Diplomat from USA.

Starting the week of February 25th - boys were assigned 4 private drivers to get them safely to school and back. Pick up at 7:30am school starts at 8:00am after school pick up at 2:50pm drop at the house 3:25pm Here is a photo of driver Raul

Driver Juri

Driver Enn

Ups a bit blurry - will try to retake:-)

Fourth driver is Joel

The Embassy did ice skating in old town Tallinn - we joined them for a whole 3hr. of fun, sweating, laughing and a few bruises at the end.  Everyone took a training walker to start with but it didn't take long to start trying to skate without help.  The boys didn't want to leave.  So because they liked it that much we promise to go back when they collect 30 gold behavior start as a brother team.  So far Magnas is -3, Cam and Tad +2.