I leave for Finland tomorrow night!! I haven't been back since 2009, so this is very exciting.
1) Seeing people I haven't seen in a long while. Well, DUH. This is the most important part of the trip but the least fun to read about on a list. My whole extended family, including my 89-year-old grandmother, will be there!
2) Food. Great salmon and potatoes, of course, but I have a huge sweet-tooth, so I get most excited about the candy and fruit! The best chocolate in the world, delicious wild berries, and my favorite pear-flavored ice cream - nowhere else have I found that delicious fake pear taste!
7) Helsinki. We'll mostly be in the countryside, but we'll have a few days in the capital, and I can't wait to spot Hel Looks -worthy people and hopefully visit my favorite art museum, Kiasma.
There you have it! I'll post a bit more before I leave, and I promise lots of fun midnight sun pictures when I get back : )
2) Food. Great salmon and potatoes, of course, but I have a huge sweet-tooth, so I get most excited about the candy and fruit! The best chocolate in the world, delicious wild berries, and my favorite pear-flavored ice cream - nowhere else have I found that delicious fake pear taste!
Fazer chocolate
Wild blueberries and cloudberries
Green pear - yum!
3) The midnight sun! We'll be there while the days are the longest. It gets dusky outside, but the sun never really goes down.
4) SAUNA!! Real sauna, wood-heated, dark, hot, steamy (I know what you're giggling at. Really - no funny business.) It's the best way to relax and get really clean.
Hitting your back with a bundle of birch leaves and twigs in the sauna supposedly improves circulation. And it smells good!
5) Juhannus - the midsummer holiday. I've never actually gotten to Finland early enough in the year to celebrate it. I can't wait! Bonfires, good food, and staying up late are involved - my kind of holiday.
6) Moomin paraphernalia! If you don't know about the moomins, here, go educate yourself : ) I've had the calendar every year for the past three years (funny that I waited until I was an adult and in college...), and I can't wait to get one for 2012 and see this stuff everywhere! The moomins are just so full of JOY.
7) Helsinki. We'll mostly be in the countryside, but we'll have a few days in the capital, and I can't wait to spot Hel Looks -worthy people and hopefully visit my favorite art museum, Kiasma.
There you have it! I'll post a bit more before I leave, and I promise lots of fun midnight sun pictures when I get back : )
Finland sounds like a blast! Take lots of pics and have a safe trip :)
ReplyDeleteCLOUDBERRIES! they sound tastebud-tactical! and i forgot to tell you that while searching for books for my cousin's unborn, I FOUND A MOOMIN BOOK! very exciting.
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