A hop, skip, and a ...um...SWEDEN??

Kiitos Sweden :)

Finally, oh FINALLY I am legal. Bring that on...
A last min call from the Embassy, ensuring I could get my visa from Sweden resulted in: Tickets being purchased, bags packed, convincing Jukka to join me and within a couple of hours boarding the boat to Sweden....

30 hrs on a boat for 5hrs on land is not really the way I would like to spend a couple of evenings, but for sure it was worth every last second.

Freezing my butt off, but just HAD to look at the frozen sea (pick the foreigner:P)


VIVA LA VISA...a very very happy moment


So great, that Jukka and I had to celebrate with Champagne


Oh, and did I mention that going thru the ice on the boat was really cool??

Non-communicado?

Well perhaps just a bit...

the ins and outs of moving have indeed kept me more then occupied for the past few weeks...As well as the question of 'do traffic lights HAVE to take that long before giving you your little green man?'
I think not. One down side of the new location, is traffic lights that seem to have it in for me.
It goes something like this:



I go to the lights. Press the button. Wait, one, two. Press the button again. Wait. Curse myself that I did not put on enough warm things today. Press the button. Wait. Go to cross with out the green mans blessing before 4 cars come at once. Press the button. Wait. Wait. Wait. Man turns green just as another person comes to the lights.
Does the green man wait for more then 2 people before deciding to stop traffic for you? Or can he just tell that I was not made for this weather, and he needs a good laugh??

Either way, not impressed!

Great new place non-the-less.

will endeavor to do more exciting things, as well as take photos of those things to make sure there is something more entertaining for ya all ;)


Helsinki this time of year :)


Kim and Jukka at the beach, dreaming of warmer days, eating snags on bread with tom sauce. yum yum!


And a first look at our new place...