Day 6

Hello Everyone and greetings from Tallinn Estonia.
Today we awoke early for breakfast. After breakfast we sat out on the balcony and watched us sail in to port. It was a bit breezier and cooler this morning but luckily it warmed up nicely during the afternoon. After we docked we met up with our tour guide and boarded a bus headed into the city. Tallin is kinda several different cities in one. They have what they call Upper Town which is where the nobility used to live with large castle towers and walls made of lime stone. Then there is Lower Town where the peasents and the guildsmen lived with smaller towers and walls surrounding it. Outside of that you get to the newer more modern city which we didn't tour. Anyways our tour wound its way up to Upper Town and stopped there. We then got off the bus and walked to the parliment house which incorperated two of the old castle towers into a newer building. Across the street from that was a Russian Orthodox church all done up with the onion spires on top. It was neat but not as colorful as the ones in Russia. Also I forgot to mention that all the streets were paved with cobblestone they were a little rough but they went nicely with the castles and old churches. After we left the church we walked through an opening in the wall to lower town. The wall was huge, I got a couple of pictures with Kirah in front of it. Then we moved on to the town square and the meeting hall which was another midevil building with a town square surrounding it. It had a large spire put on it later in its life dedicated to an old watchmen. Made of the melted down coins from the local peasents. Then we walked to another much smaller church. It was the first lime stone building in the city and had been burnt down twice then the russians put a roof on it and used it as a garage for there cars. The floor of this church was made of headstones and when the russians started using it for there cars the estonians secretly took the floors out. Today they are displayed on the outside of the building. Then we walked around alot of the shops and had to wait cause all the old ladies had to go to the bathroom (We had only been on the tour a couple of hours). So after they went to the bathroom we walked down to the midevil torcher museum. We were going to go in after the tour but we didn't have any local currency so we just got a flier instead. After that we followed the group for a while longer then got bored cause we were having a hard time hearing the tour guide so we went shopping (Kirah's favorite part). At the store the ship recomended they didn't have many souviners mostly just antiques. So we ventured off on our own. After searching a couple of stores we ended up with a nesting doll ( the ones that break apart and hold more dolls inside), and a painting of tallin from the sea with wooden sailing ships. Anyway I think that is about all and kirah is getting hungry. She is standing over my shoulder like a famished woman just waiting for me to feed her. so have a wonderful day and we will see you soon enough