We had +18 degrees yesterday! Feels really weird after this long and cold winter. Today back to below 10.
Have not managed to write about our day out on Sunday yet. Some of you hopefully received the link to my Picasa album from that day. It's a small place called Keila-Joa maybe 20 km out of town along the coast. There is one of the few waterfalls we have here and now after this massive amount of snow the river is of course huge and the waterfall spectacular. There is even a small hydro-electric plant. We had my parents with us and took a great walk almost all the way to the sea - we could see it but then were cut off by a house and would have had to walk at least one extra km. Beautiful, along the river that runs really fast now, wild birds there and all. The trees are not green yet so the first spring flowers get even more attention. I haven't been in Estonia in the springtime for so many years now so these childhood memories of picking the spring flowers came rushing back. So glad that I could share this early spring experience with the kids. Including the ants trick! The small blue flowers (on the photo below) change their color when put into the ants nest from blue to pink! And the smell - obviously it's the ants pee that causes it, so after the treatment the flowers smell like strong vinegar. Lots of fun doing it! You have to tickle the ants to make them treat the flower.

On Monday went to the movies to see the last part of the Millenium trilogy - the Swedish film. It didn't get better than the previous episodes and a movie is almost always a disappointment compared to the book. Will be interesting to see what Hollywood makes out of it. This was a bit confusing and I don't like it when they change the storyline. Liked Noomi Rapace as Lisbet but really not Michael Nyquist as Michael Blomquist. The book character leaves the impression of being a really handsome guy, a heartbreaker but a tough cookie at the same time. In the film he is not that good-looking and a bit fake, even pathetic.