Hello everyone. We have been in finland for a few days now and its awesome up here. we are staying with annies friends, matti and katti. We visited helsinki and have been introduced to a lot of their culture. On saturday we visited their parents who live in a small town named  sysmä. They live on a farm next to a lake with many small cabins that they rent in the summer months. We spent an evening in one of the cabins and cooked dinner, a few drinks then got in our "swimmers",  ran a lap in the snow and jumped in the suana. Pretty cold...
   The next day we slept-in a bit and then matti's mother cooked us some moose, potatoes, veggies and juice that was made from hand picked berries for lunch. I could definetly get used to that:)  Then we did some cross country skiing (aka backyard skiing). I never thought it was easy but didn't think it was that hard. matti's father showed us how to prepare the skis and it helps in learning to cross country ski but you definetly need to practice to get your rythm.
     Tomorrow, Annie and I are going to explore Helsinki some more then we are leaving for Thailand on Tuesday afternoon.
    Talk to you soon:)