Saturday 10/5/13 out into the country

Latvian Janis has big plans for us. Three nights and 4 days to Eastern Latvia where Janis is from. Saturday: We were in the car at 9 am. (6 of us) heading east. First area was the National park where we saw a ski area, many beautiful parks, old castles from 1200AD and beautiful churches. Proceeding further East we had lunch and ended up way out in the country at Janis's cousins vacation home. Her husband, a builder claimed his grand mothers land in 1992 when Latvia gained their freedom and land could be claimed by the rightful owners. It was very big with three homes and a barn made out of logs from clearing the land. They had a feast for us and most of their family came with their children. Janis and I had a sauna in the house that we stayed in - very nice!! When we left, his cousin said we would be welcome to stay a month when we come back