Things to do on a rainy day

First of all don't take your umbrella, don't buy one either. That way it's more fun!
Then go to the hairdresser first, the sun bleached out all the colour, and the hairstyle might be refreshed as well. Go to the best hairdresser in town, but be careful not to pay too much! Which can be avoided if you have friends who know.
Then make sure you happen to be in or close to a mall. Nice and dry areas with lots of cafes, restaurants and - of course - shops. A suitable one in Riga would be MOLS.
Check every shoeshop for sensible shoes, most probably you won't find any. So it takes longer to look.
Check every dress shop for sensible dresses, trousers and t-shirts. You will find them by the dozens. Remember glittery thingies don't count as sensible.
Then, after having found all the stuff you were in desperate need for, buy a huuuuge bag to put your goodies into.
And then forget to go to the supermarket to get the fruit juice you were supposed to get for the kiddy games party in the evening. Which I did. So I had to go to a second mall! Ain't that a wonderful way of spending your time on a rainy day?!
In the evening, when the sun was out again, and my hair nice and dry (and curly and a copper red), we met at Ieva's place and had fun playing kiddy games from Latvia, Germany and Finland with a few of her friends, every one of them hc-member. We enjoyed it a lot, but all those crawling about games and carrying each other and stuff were a bit hard on me. Age and old bones...
Way after midnight Lari and I left for our place, and now today he's off to Tallinn, and I'll go the beach northeast of Riga. And on to Tallinn tomorrow. Batmannu (whom we know from chat and the Helsinki meeting) will host us, first him, then me. Maybe the two of us on saturday, we'll see. :-))))