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April is an interesting month to be in Silllamae. The seasons are changing from extreme cold to extreme beauty—so you catch the middle, kinda ho hum weather. Everyone is working because it is still winter/early spring and the buzz of summer hasn’t begun to spark people’s energy—and their own dreams of vacation.

But you feel like you are right on the brink of something amazing and the potential energy is winding so tightly that when it finally springs, paradise comes out for a few months---until the next winter! This is the time that we visited Sillamae, during the potential energy season; not spring or winter, but the in between time.

I went there with this thought in mind, and am very glad that I had the chance to see Estonia this way again. When I lived there before, I entered this period after the dark, dark, cold, very cold winter—and the early spring isn’t very inspiring after being so dark for so long. The past few times that we visited Sillamae have been in the summer, and it truly is paradise. There are good things in every season, there even can be beauty in the darkens of winter; I’m glad that we saw Estonia as it really is, not through rosy glasses of summer or gloomy glasses of winter.

Thank you everyone in Estonia for giving us a place to stay and good food to eat; putting up with us for a month; Thank you for letting us come at a time that was stressful for you because you were all still working. It was great, and beautiful and we had a wonderful time. Next year we will come in the summer and enjoy paradise with you. (hopefully)