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Tallinn, Estonia
59° 26' N 24° 43' E
Aug 04, 2006 16:25
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Tallinn #3

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It was yet another lazish morning and how can I complain. We dróve out of the city to the seashore to a rock face that was about 15 meters tall (Estonia is very flat in general)  and walked around the beach for a while.  I was sitting on the beach when I got bit three times by a fire ant, poor Laura was sitting on bunches of the fire ants but managed to escape without a bite.   The beach and sea were nice but it wasnt really suitable for swimming. 

After this we had lunch at a bar looking place and among other great things we had this meat chunks wrapped in breading fried and served with sour cream. They were quite good and laura tells me that these are a Russian thing. I ate too much for lunch.

I needed to buy some things so we went to the shopping mall, unfortunetly it just as bad as the shopping malls in America.. specialty stores with "overpriced high quality BRAND NAME products"  for some reason I couldnt even find a pair of underwear that looked suitable without caring what the price was. It was certainly sad but the mall put me in a bad mood. Laura bought me a plain white shirt on super clearance which I haved termed my Euro shirt since men in America really dont wear white shirts like that.

Laura operates a party room for children as her own business.  Its got a ball room and you can hang from the ceiling along with lots of toys and space for a childrens birthday party. We went to open the place up for a party when we ran into the plumbing disaster.  Mostly it was just water all over the floor, but it was decided that there wasnt enough water for a mop and we didnt have anything but toilet paper so a few rolls of toilet paper later the water was off the floor. Before we left I had a chance to meet Lauras Father and Mother and her 3.5 year old daughter Elisa. While the party guests arrived I watched Elisa while laura went to get some more cleaning supplies I am not sure what all she did during that 45 minutes but after an already full day and lots of time in the car Elisa was pretty crabby and I was crabby, but trying to put a nice face on everything.  The party had a pippy long stocking theme and at least a few of the girls showed up in costumes and it really looked like a fun party.  And of course lucky for me Elisa gave me a perfect opportunity to jump into the balls. After that we made a trip to the store and Laura made vodka orange juice drinks and went to a bachlerette party for a good friend of hers complete with limo and lap dancing male stripper.  Elisa and Lauras parents left for haapsalu so I had a few hours to myself that evening.