Some of the building material for Aigar's new house. It's made of a foam like block material and a thinset morter.


Bonie fetching a stick in the Baltic Sea.

She got it!!!

Cande found a nice piece of amber on the beach!

Amber!!!

At the path to the beach near Aigar's summer home.

Cousin Imants, Aigars' and Andris' father! A great guy!

and very friendly but doesn't speak or understand English.

Aigars and Imants getting the grill fired up!

Luda, Imants' wife and Ilza getting ready for lunch.

Andris arriving for lunch.

Andris took Cande and me to his "near town" flat to show us some of the WW II relics he's collected. He's into this BIG TIME! Note the hand grenades he's holding! They are defused and no powder. He found the German machine gun in a bunker in a box so it's really new!!! and it will work!

Andris found this Russian AK too but he had to make the stock as it was missing. It's in bad shape and not capable of firing.

Al trys the AK!

The gated entry to Andris' home and many others in a VERY exclusive area!!!

Al and Andris next to the home he's having built. VERY nice!!!

Andris' sauna next to the new home!!!

His home and new Mercedies Benz...

Andris took Cande and me to lunch and this is part of the resturant. Note the thatched roof!

Andris took us to the Latvian National Wildlife Center.

A European brown bear, like our grizzly!

Just the 3 of us in the wildlife center.

OK, this is NOT an elk!!! See the next photo...

It's a MOOSE!!!

Yep, a Lynx allright!!!

and there it is looking right at us! Cool!!!

Latvia has many wolves... we saw one but the light was to dim and he was to far away.