Open Air Museum

Last weekend we took advantage of the beautiful summer weather we've been having and decided to visit Estonia's Open Air Museum. Many countries, and even U.S. states, have something similar... a little "village" of old houses, schools, barns, etc. We had so much fun visiting this one; here's a little bit of what we saw.....

The first set of houses we came to had a gathering of people in costume outside of it, so we knew something exciting was about to happen. And we were right....
It turns out that only 2 days a week, once a day, these people perform Estonian folk-dancing. We had no idea that this would be going on, the Lord just led us here at the perfect time to see it. Here is a video of just a little bit of the dancing....



I loved this one because these two cute little girls were in the dance; they are so adorable....

They even asked my husband and son to join in the dances. Here is the lady thanking my son for the dance.... (I blurred his face)
There were many interesting buildings to look at, such as a summer kitchen....
Barns and wells....
A church....
And a school....
Some interesting things inside of the houses too like an old kettle with "temperature control". Very interesting design, but I'm thankful for my knobs and dials....
I'm assuming this is an attempt at keeping your child contained, like a walker.... (In case you can't tell, it's just a hole in a table with the "child" put inside)
The decorations in this pantry reminded me of Laura Ingalls Wilder. I don't remember which book she talked about it, but they would make pretty shelf liners out of paper; I imagine they looked something like these....
My favorite sights though were the people. They were sitting out in front of the buildings doing different types of handicrafts; some of them for sale. Like this older lady crocheting, and of course the precious little girl beside her....
This lady was spinning wool....
And this sweet lady was making crafts out of what looked like wheat....

We had a really wonderful time. I hope you enjoy the pictures and video and can get a little feel for what it was like :o)