Sunday morning in Riga

After a much better nights sleep than any of us expected interrupted only by a falling picture from the wall we are headed out to find breakfast.

We have really embraced the European culture with a departure time of 10am.

First stop is Caffeine which is just past the Circle K and down from the New Yorker clothing store.

Cappuccino’s for me and Greg, white chocolate latte for Brooks, Chai latte for Jake and a smoothie for Maddie. Maddie and I chose filled croissants (accidentally) for breakfast. we normally do go for filling but I’m not mad about this. The rest of the group went to McDonald’s for breakfast.

As it turns out McDonalds doesn’t have breakfast here so the group landed on a burger, a McToasty, a chicken wrap and a Sprite. Sidebar, the total for that order was 8,90 euros. Jake grabbed McDonalds in the Brussels airport which consisted of three chicken tenders (which he said should he offered in the US), fries, a coke and one dipping sauce and the total was 48 euros. I’m glad the chicken tenders didn’t suck because that is hopefully the most anyone will ever pay for McDonald’s. Guess being in the airport in an expensive city means they can charge whatever they want to.

Time to start exploring the city. We are going with the flow with no specific plans.

It turns out the McDonald’s is very close to the Baltic Way Footprint Monument. This memorializes when two million people held hands in a peaceful protest of Russia in 1989.

Next stop…forced kid pic.

My vision didn’t work well. Hard to see Maddie and Jake but couldn’t have talked them into a redo.

Next up a short stroll through a cute park.

These people get real creative with their locks!

From a distance I saw what I thought looked like the entrance to the Louvre. Nope. Not at all the same but it was an entrance to an underground parking garage.

We decided to head toward Riga Central Market which is a large indoor market inside five old Zeppelin hangers. Obviously I’m going to continue to take pics the entire walk.