Oh Vienna :)

To reward ourselves for living through a freezing cold Finnish Easter, Jukka and I took a lovely long weekend to Vienna.
Oh the sun, the wine, the sights, the 'interesting' accommodation, oh Vienna...

ahh!!! This is sun! Can't see a thing! Hurts my eyes that are accustomed for dark :P not to mention the reflection from our white as white tan :)


Flip flops!! Bring that on!! Needless to say, we ended up with some nice red noses by the end of the weekend.


The highlight was visiting the wine village not far from Vienna's center. Look you can even get wine in coffee cups, perfect replacement for a morning coffee no? But in all seriousness, very nice wine, and very nice prices. Comparable in price to the lovely Australian 'goon' however not tasting ANYTHING like it :)


God damn I finished this!


Last night, boo for last nights, but we found a great little place just around the corner from where we were staying. Cheers!


And a nice sight to remember a great, relaxing holiday :)

First for everything!

Sometimes life is just so full that you run out of time for bloggin :P

Even though living in a country I have lived before, the past months have brought with them many firsts in my life...


First time at -350 meters into the ground! For work, we had an event at -350, and well, it was pretty unusual. This was a deep as the Eiffel Tower is high - pretty crazy no? Also the site for one of the Amazing Race check points, and will have many scenes from an upcoming movie 'the story of Christmas.' Does not happen every day :P

First Jääkiekko (Ice hockey) game!
Ok, a bit of a shame it took me so long to do this one, but it was GREAT :) For full impact experience, we sat behind the penalty box, so lots of cranky men there :P
Here are the winners..


and the losers...


First sunny days :P
A few weeks ago, we went to Jukka's family cottage and were able to experience sitting in the sun without jackets - slight shame that the weather insisted on diving back into freaken freezing for the Easter break with a small amount of snow (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) on Friday.

(standing on the sea looking back at the sauna)

I am also now the proud owner/borrower of a BIKE!!!
I gotta bike, I gotta bike, I gotta bike bike bike bike bike!! Bring that right on... now I just need the wind to drop, the sun to shine and it to increase by about 10degrees! No worries :P