I thought the double rainbow

and the thunder that followed it on Thursday night were going to end the rainy streak and bring us a nice Indian summer. Well, not quite. I don't even know if the first ever outdoor movie showing in the Kadriorg park took place or not (the grass, sure, must have been wet) but not much fun could have had outdoors on Friday. Maybe we'll have our Indian summer for today and tomorrow though - whether believing the weathermen or looking out of the window.

Let me now give a short overview of recent events. In two weeks, we've been at public events with TV cameras twice. The second time was on Wednesday when we went to the Square to stand (in drizzling rain, of course) with "thousands" of greeters to welcome home and honor the Estonian Olympic winner and the team of two silver medalists.

Wheels and more

I drove my car yesterday. After months of waiting and submitting paperwork and more waiting, we drove the car out of the port parking lot. It felt great! Furthermore, we were able to claim all our stuff. Opening all our boxes was like Christmas. Dishes, baskets, shelves, art, our nice clock, baseball mitt, and lucky doormat... All back!

We only have temp tags on the Subaru, so there's still a bit of paperwork left, but the end is in sight. Ave's done a unbelievable job navigating the bureaucracy and personalities: researching, documenting, sweet talking, and even strong-arming a couple times.

We've been having a lot of fun here lately. I swam in the Baltic Sea, which was chilly but perhaps not more so than Laguna Beach in the early summer. The beach itself was great. I played some volleyball with Arx and Janno while Olja and Ave got some sun. Last weekend we went to Otepaa for Grandma Kikas's birthday.

We had to take care of A&O's mutant cat while they were in Tunisia. They came back tanned and I'm not sure the cat recognized them anymore because he tried to run away from them as they took him away.