Day 43 To Market and Iki

Old Mother Hubbard had nothing on us, let me tell you.  I started the day at Iki where I bought  two large reusable sacks and a backpack full of assorted groceries.  I saw ground beef there for the first time, so bought it and the stuff I would need to make taco salad.  Someone menmtioned it at church the other Sunday, and I couldn't resist.  We don't have a Mexican place here, but you can get the things needed to make your own, sorta kinda.  As I left the store, I called Del so he could meet me at the front door to get the groceries and put them away while I went to the old market for chicken and pork.  We might get used to this cell phone thing before it's over.  On the way home, I stopped at the bakery to get a meat bun and a mushroom bun to share for lunch.  They were not as good as the pierogs (sort of a filled croissant) we had in Riga, but they were tasty and quick.

Going to the store on Monday here is much like going in the US - not the smartest idea.  If you go too early, the shelves are not fully stocked, and you have to get around the boxes of stuff they are unloading to get to what you need.

I forgot to tell you that one of the things I saw on our trip was a smart car (I think) decorated with Playboy logos, logi.  There were two young women inside wearing Playboy garb and laughing and giggling.  I guess they were going to work.  They drove off before I could get a picture.

Del was also able to get Latvian Happy Meal toys, R2D2 and CP3O, at a McDonalds in the neighborhood. It was sort of near the tour bus stop, so it worked for a quick meal on the way back to the hotel.  I think the burgers and fries tasted about the same as in the US, but the fries were rather limp.  We'll try the Lithuanian one before we leave here, I guess, so we can get more toys.  When Rosa came out to see us in fall of the year of many surgeries, Del asked her if she wanted to see the Mother Lode of Happy Meal Toys.  She later told her dad that Granddaddy had shown her the Mommy Lode of Happy Meal Toys. 

Our Lithuanian teacher called to cancel class for this week.  Woo Hoo!! I wish I could say I was disappointed.  Poor thing, trying to teach us has got to be hard work.

If you get a chance to go through some of the Riga pictures, try to find the funky street lights.  I fell in love with them.