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June 15, 2000
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There was also this older man there playing a flute, and many of us had our pictures taken with him (he gave me a kiss on the cheek!). He recognized us as the choir on TV that sang the Latvian national anthem (while we were in Riga we gave a concert at the university that was broadcast nationally); he said we were famous. We decided to sing for him since he was there playing for us, and when we sang the Latvian national anthem he was so touched that he started to cry. It was incredibly touching to many of us, too. |
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That day we visited a couple of medieval castles that were also in Sigulda. We learned that most of the medieval ruins were destroyed during the wars, so the ones that are left are very special to them and they are trying to preserve and restore them. It was crazy to see these ruins, because we don' t really have that in America. It was so surreal to see the old churches and castle grounds and know that people use to actually live there, it was like a fairy tale! |
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Later on we went to have lunch at a hotel in Cesis. It was really nice,
like a catered banquet. They had somebody there filming us for a tourism
video that they were making. The meal was the traditional Latvian meal that
we had already had so many times before; fried pork or salmon with dill
sauce (everything has dill!), boiled potatoes (again with dill), and pickled
vegetables. It was very hospitable, but I must admit that be that time in
the trip I would do anything for a pizza or burger. The dessert was
extremely delicious, as are most European desserts, uummm, cheesecake!
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