OK... one more thing. :)

Some of you may know that in February my younger brother came to visit me in Latvia! He actually came because he needed to have some dental work done. It was cheaper for him to buy a plane ticket to Latvia, and pay to have the work done here, rather than just pay for it all in the States. How about that? So he was here for about two weeks.
We had a great time, although, we didn't do much. The weather was very cold while he was here. You all know I hate the cold weather, and him being a "desert rat" (his own words), he didn't exactly enjoy the -20C temps either. So, we didn't spend too much time outside, and only left Riga once. But, it had been almost two years since we'd seen each other, so we enjoyed a lot of time just talking, catching up on life, and sharing all kinds of things about the people we have become.
Here is a great picture of us, on the day we did leave Riga. We took the train down to Jurmala, the city by the sea (literally, the name translated is seaside). It is actually the Gulf of Riga, not the open Baltic Sea that we visited. It was lovely though. The first 10 meters or so of water was frozen, and then it was just wide open calm water after that. The sun was shining, reflecting off the ice, making for a lovely, though squinty, walk along the beach.
So here we are... me and my younger brother Martins.