Subway is something

we speak of frequently and miss. As a place to go get sandwiches then, not to move around under ground. They have Metro in Tartu that serves the same purpose and is supposed to be as good. But we got none in Tallinn. So we had to make our own little sandwich shop at home. I had cooked meat balls in sweet 'n' sour tomato sauce on Sunday and Mike baked an ovenful of golden, soft baguettes that we combined for an ultimate experience. Yumm!

Looking at the picture collage down the screen I feel I must record it's snowing once again. It's dark out so we can't see but we watch it on TV coming down on the soccer field as our national team ties with Serbia. It is a night game with snow forecast and temperature 1 below freezing, and there were people that actually got tickets to go cheer!

First day of spring training

was today. The players in Mike's team reported and drilled. I heard they all survived. How many of them will show up for the next indoor practice - the time will show. I called it spring training because the spring is almost here. I think last weekend was the first when I thought I felt another season was on its way. There are still mountains of snow outside the city (probably 2-3 feet in my Grandma's yard - a place I checked out last weekend, and even more in some spots in towns) but in downtown Tallinn it is now possible to get from one building to another without having to don ice skates. If you pick your routes very carefully and don't go far.

So it was a surprise to be greeted by this thick, white curtain of snow outside the windows this morning. Nevertheless, Mike judged he didn't need an overcoat to venture out when the snow stopped. He won the battle!
Ask me for larger images if you want to see better how close together the snowflakes were.

How many times

have we contemplated about going to see the Independence Day parade? I know how many times we've actually gone and seen it. None. :( For this year, we got an excuse. No, not -24C weather that morning. But we had to buff up our place for our very special guests. And no, the weather didn't matter because we went out the next day when it was even cooler. So cool that school kids weren't required to go to school. So they skated on an open air ice rink. And we watched them with our special guests.
Seven days of fun, and some days of work.