We spent a lazy morning making breakfast in our little fisherman's cottage.
After breakfast, we walked the Jurmala beach in daylight. The wind had died down quite a lot today. The beach is covered with a very soft fine quartz white sand. We found many small pink shells which J-Me is thinking she might embellish into jewelry. (we shall see if she gets time to make anything).
Finally, after searching the beach for hours, J-Me finds a small piece of Amber. Okay, so it is very small.
After a while we start to get cold again, so we walked back thru the forest of trees and walked back to our cottage. This time the trees spoke to us as we passed by. You could hear them slowly moving with the wind. It sounded like the trees were speaking to us.
We then had a warm cup of tea before we headed out again to drive down the coastline to see more beaches. We came to one beach, named Gausa judze (meaning Slow Mile) and we were the only ones on the beach. It was a very nice beach with lots of small shells.
We then find something which looks like butterscotch amber.
J-ME decides she can throw one big piece back into the ocean, as she said she would do. (Just like her Grandfather had done in Latvia when he was a child). 
After roaming the beach for awhile, we head back into town in search of a restaurant for dinner. We decide on a traditional Latvian style Restaurant this time, having potato pancakes and pork cooked their style, served with beets and red cabbage. The meal was quite tasty.
After dinner we strolled thru town, found a little bakery for after dinner sweets,
(opps, Guy had a few bites- he could not wait)
then we bought some fixings for lunch the next day at a grocery store, and went into a liquor store to purchase a bottle of traditional Latvian herbal Balsam, sold in a clay bottle.
There is a legend which comes with balsam, dating back from the late 1700's. It is said that the Empress Catherine the Great, was very ill and perhaps was going to die. A herbalist made a concoction for her to drink, using 40 different herbs. Once the Queen drank it, she was cured.
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