1. Helsinki wifi is amazing 2. I might become an ex-pat someday 3. I forgot to mention that in Prague they never bring your check until you ask, they bring credit card machines to your table so you never hand your card off, and every meal is topped with coffee or tea and dessert-I'm drinking the best cafe mocha right now 4. I keep having these intense fleeting moments of being ready for motherhood. So weird cuz I've never had that until recently. I actually di...

Woke up Monday morning not feeling very well. I think all the smoking (by other people) in the clubs and bars got to me. I forgot how sick it makes me! Showered in the apartment for the last time (and used the bidet just cuz), packed up, had some tea, and got ready to meet the girls for lunch. Stopped down in reception to push back our airport pickup. Erica's flight to Copenhagen wasn't until 5:30 and my flight to Helsinki didn't take off until 7:30. The apartmen...

I tried to sleep in on Saturday. It wasn't really working for me. Heather had a 4am pickup for the airport. I was expecting Erica around noon. So I caught up on email, wrote, worked a little bit until she got here. I also looked into what to do in Helsinki. My lfight gets into Finland at 10:30 pm and I don't fly out to Chicago the next day until 2:30pm. I wanted to explore the city a bit but I ended up just booking a room at the airport hotel. I figured by the ti...

Friday. It was tough to wake up today. Overslept a bit but wasn't too worried about it because we didn't have anything major for our workshop setup. Still got to the site in plenty of time to open up the tent, set up the tables, sneak into the info tent to get our supplies and make copies of certificates, and prep. It was chilly. Heather wore pants. I would have worn pants except I only brought my plane pants. =/ We divided the youth into their groups from yeste...

Thursday morning was our second workshop day. It was hot as ever. I was on adrenaline as this was my major day to present. All went well. We were both beyond tired. We tried to escape to our apartment and to souvenir shop right after the workshop, but Jon, another workshop presenter, caught us on our walk home. He was standing on the tram platform with Chuck and Chuck's wife, (CEO of San Francisco) so we had to go over and say hello. They invited us to lunch, an...