We left Vilnius this morning. Our first stop was Rumsiskes, what they call an open air museum. Picture a 400 acre Sturbridge. We had a guide takes us through recreations of the highlands where we saw recreations of more well to do house and then a poor family house. Next was the lowland recreation which were basically farms. The farmers house was quite nice while the workers lived in bunkhouses. Most houses had many people living in them. The poorer people had no heat. Stones were used to hear beds at night. The richer people had large fireplaces with chimneys. All houses had thatched roofs which last approximately 50 years. The last stop was a small village town with stores, church and schoolhouse. Lastly we met a survivor of 1941 deportation to Siberia. Her journey was unimaginable to us. She spent 8 years at the bottom of the arctic circle mothers and children provided labor to unloading ships. Too much to describe the awful environment these mothers and their children lived in. Following this, she spent 17 more years in Irkutsk before she was able to return to Lithuania. She never saw her father once they were separated at deportation, her mother died in the labor camp, and she was reunited with her brother much later. The family's crime was that they owned property. Lunch was in Kaunas which was once the capital of Lithuania. Final stop is Klaipeda, the only port city in Lithuania.