So now a Chloe's eye view of our trip to Tallinn. One highlight was seeing a performance at the Estonian National Puppet Theatre. The show we saw was aimed at the 2- to 4-year-old demographic, which was perfect for Chloe (and also meant that any Estonian involved was not crucial to following the plot). Various interesting animals were featured, as well as unusual supporting cast members like an animated rain cloud. After the show the puppeters came out into the audience with a sampling of puppets. Chloe had mixed feelings about this (as you can see from her expression in the picture below).
Chloe has an ambivalent relationship with fake animals -- on the one hand really excited in seeing them and watching their various antics, on the other hand quite scared when she meets one up close. For example, here is a flashback from last summer near Swarthmore when she met Cookie Monster in person ... .
Food (of course) was another highlight of Chloe's trip to Tallinn. She did very well on the ice cream front, and probably the most impressive thing she demolished was the chocolate sundae at Monday lunch. Here are two 'during' and 'after' pictures.
Perhaps Chloe's only disappointment was at the size of Tallinn. I told her when we got on the bus in Tartu that we were going to a big town called Tallinn and that it was the biggest city in Estonia. She asked what a city was and I reinforced the idea that it was like a town, just bigger. When we got off the bus in Tallinn and walked into the Old Town and to the apartment we were renting, Chloe said plaintively, "Where's Tallinn?" I told her that we this was Tallinn all around us, and she cried "I just want to go to the big city. Where's the big city?"
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