Previously on Kristy and Thom.... The pair had just climbed on board their boat in Riga Latvia. On the next leg of the Stockholm to Helsinki Finland>Helsinki to Tallinn Estonia>Tallinn to Riga Latvia>Riga to Stockholm journey, they would be leaving Riga for holm....Stockholm that is.
Kristy and I were glad to be on board the Silja Festival, and headed back to Stockholm. We had a good trip, but we were ready to be back in our beloved Stockholm. Maybe more than that, we were ready to get back to Reese Bonkers. We miss her so much and worry about her whenever we go away. We have some GREAT dog sitters both here in Sweden, and back home in Minnesota. But no matter who is watching her, I always get visions in my head of her darting out the door when it's opened, or getting off her leash somehow, or something like that. Before we could see Reese though, we had to endure another overnight boat trip. This one was not quite as good an experience as our first boat trip. The first trip between Stockholm and Helsinki couldn't really have been any better. This trip had a lot more kids on board running around, and a lot more Adidas Sweatsuit wearers. It was also a different ship, with a different layout. I personally liked our cabin better on this ship, but the rest of the boat was pretty lame. We found a comfortable table and made ourselves at home there. Eventually, we got a drink, and a little while after that we got dinner. Went simple. Also wandered through the shops on board, but more of the same old souvenir crap. Eventually made it back to our cabin to relax, get our things organized, and get a much needed good nights sleep....or so we thought. Unfortunately, the Russians hosting the party across the hall from us thought it would be a good idea to have all of their loud ass friends over until all hours of the night. Once we did finally get to sleep, we were woken up by what felt like huge waves hitting the boat, and the occasional crashing noise. I thought about going up on deck to see what was going on, but just couldn't drag myself out of bed. I may not have liked what I saw anyway. I figured that if there were any major problems, we'd hear screaming, and the alarms would sound. I really just wanted to go up on deck to see how big the waves were. We could see that we were heading into a pretty big storm before we went down to our cabin, so it was not a real surpise. Morning finally came and we showered and gathered our belongings. We went upstairs for breakfast, and were happy to see that we were once again in the Swedish Archapelagos. It was a sunny morning, and felt like spring. We docked, and ran to the bus just before it took off. We showed up at Lena and Linda's place to pick up Reese, and learned that she had gained a new toy, a little stuffed bear with a Sverige (Sweden) t-shirt on. We named it LOLE Bear, using the initials of the two girls. It was apparently her favorite toy whenever she went to Lena & Linda's place to stay, so they wanted her to have it. We talked with Lena a while, and then dragged our butts back across town to the apartment. Getting back to the apartment felt good, but at the same time, it felt strange because there is almost nothing left in it. We have given a majority of our borrowed things back to the people who loaned it to us, and everything else we had thinned out for packing in boxes, or giving away to friends.
All in all, our trip to Helsinki, Tallinn, and Riga left us with many great memories. Kristy and I both agreed that we probably wouldn't choose to go back to any of the cities we visited, because one day was enough to see everything we'd wanted to see. The one place we felt like we would direct people to go if they happened to be visiting the region would be Tallinn. We really liked it there, and think others would too. So if you're ever in the neighborhood, drop on by and say "hey" to the fine folks in Tallinn. Some of them might even know what you're trying to say.
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