Saturday we took the city autobus to the Open Air Museum and walked around the wooded paths. There are restored and old country houses that have been moved to this site beginning in 1924. The buildings are arranged in village clusters representing four regions of Latvia. Bob was very interested in the types of fencing and I was interested in the suspended cradles next to the mothers bed with a piece of wood above which rocks the cradle. There were a few craftspeople such as the women basket weaver you see in the photo. She explained how she uses bulrushes for the weaving. The roofs were of reeds, not as flexible. Bob spoke with one woman in German and another wouldn't speak to us at all. She was younger and shook her head when we asked if she spoke English or German. The elderly women seemed much more talkative. The flowers in the gardens were dahlias, marigolds, and daisies. We saw heather and blueberries along the wooded paths. Each village had a windmill high on a hill for grinding grain and we were able to walk to all four levels of one of them.
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