An Adventure!

Yesterday Sheryl and I had a bit of an adventure! We have been in Kuressaare for a few days...it is on an island that reminds us both of home! We decided to rent bikes and go see the meteor crater, 24 km away. Since neither of us have been on a bike for a long time, we were surprised at how well we did! The roads are very flat and we enjoyed seeing the countryside...there were lots of poppies adding sparks of red to the green fields. I wish that this computer would let me do pictures, but it doesn't.
The crater is a perfectly round hole, with a perfectly round emerald lake in the middle. It is very cool. It is easy to see how places like this were thought to have spiritual powers. We ate a picnic lunch by the crater, and walked around town.
On the way home we realized that our bums were very bruised, and then it started to rain. And it rained pretty hard. We were as wet as drowned rats. Then, to make things a little unusual, a police car drove by and they yelled something out the window at us. No idea what....it was all in Estonian. Our legs were very tired and we were biking very slowly...when more police drive by and then a bunch of hardcore cyclists on some sort of tour. Did we ever feel silly! Some of them said stuff to us as they zoomed past...I would like to think that they were saying 'Keep up the good work' and not 'Get off the road you SUCK!' but I really don't know.We finally make it back to the hostel and showered and went out for soup.
Then, this morning we left the hostel to take our bikes back, and the road was blocked off....for the same bike tour...that zoomed past us AGAIN! And when we returned to our hostel, it was full up with .... (take a wild guess) the bike tour! Then we remembered that there was a bike tour starting in Tartu when we were there...I think that they are following us.
We also went to see the Castle! That was very interesting...there was one tower that had lions roaring at the bottom...apparently the Bishop who used to own the castle would through his prisoners to real lions...Who knows.