Well hello everyone! We have arrived in Riga! We didn't have ANY volcano issues at all, even though the Reyjavik (Iceland airport) was closed the day before we flew in. Thankfully, there were no delays or cancellations. Last night was basically a free night after we arrived at the hotel. Several people were missing their baggage, however, and some still are! Shaylee and I both have our luggage though :)

This morning, we had a great continental breakfast at our hotel that included a LOT of great fruit! After breakfast, we took a guided tour of Riga which was BEAUTIFUL! We saw a ton of VERY old buildings with lots of history behind them (got some great pics too... like this one!)


During our free time, we ate at a beautiful cafe with delicious pizza! After that, we went on a row boat ride!! It was only $4 for the 4 of us to ride... super fun! Here's a video of our chaos...


Tonight we have dinner together and then more free time... lots of free time in Riga... oh well. It's Latvia. Cool, right?

We have our first concert tomorrow night, and thankfully Mr. Sawyer is on his way (his dad had a stroke the night before we left, so he stayed until yesterday). I was pretty worried that I was going to have to conduct the concert because he wouldn't reach Latvia on time!

Well, that's about all I have for right now! Here are some of our funny quotes... I'm just writing them on here so I don't forget them :)

"Darba laiks" -- every door on any building
"Door! Shut your door!" -- Barry
"Flick the dicker" -- Shaylee, referring to the camera switch
"I can use it as an utter... i mean RUTTER!!" -- Barry rowing the boat
"Shaylee is having a TOTALLY BLAST in Latvia!" -- Shaylee's facebook status