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We still haven't worked out why you sleep so long when you’re in Lapland in the winter. Maybe it’s the primeval instinct, like a bear, and you want to hibernate. Regardless of the reason we slept for a long time again.
The excitement of a birthday wasn’t even enough to wake Maria early from her slumber. The reason for that was that there were no presents to open. The few presents she had, had been opened already – a sausage stick from Tarja and jewellery from David’s parents. And nothing from David, we had agreed no presents this year.
After breakfast David cleared snow from the car and started it up. We weren’t able to plug the car’s engine heater in over night and with the plummeting temperature, we were a bit worried it might not start. We drove the car to town and had a walk round shops, as us usual buying nothing. There was a nice ski jacket for David, a bright orange Helly Hansen, but at €250 without a removable lining it would probably be too warm for New Zealand, they are after all designed for the Arctic.
We waited for Katja to come home from work to let her in (we had her door key) and then took Nena out for a walk. We intended walking a loop around the block, but relented when Nena wanted to walk through a forest park. We ended up walking round in a figure of eight, but we got see a few more streets and managed to stay of the busier main roads.
Once Petri arrived home, we all left to go to Comico, a Texmex restaurant, for dinner. Maria went for a delicious salmon & spicy prawn combo served with a healthy jacket potato. David, as usual, went for a more unusual choice (or perhaps it was because of the translation from Finnish to English), tortilla crumbed pork with jack and blue cheese filling, smothered in a pepper sauce with crispy fried potatoes on the side. Sounds a bit weird, but it tasted fantastic.
Being cheapskates, we bought a 3 litre box of Gato Negro Chilean wine from Alko and a Vienetta from thedairy for dessert at home.
Maria had finished building her photo books of her Round the World trip 5 years ago and finally got round to ordering them. There was an offer that finished at midnight and it was touch and go whether the upload would complete in time. It did, just before midnight and now we just need to keep our fingers crossed the books arrive before we leave for New Zealand.
The excitement of a birthday wasn’t even enough to wake Maria early from her slumber. The reason for that was that there were no presents to open. The few presents she had, had been opened already – a sausage stick from Tarja and jewellery from David’s parents. And nothing from David, we had agreed no presents this year.
After breakfast David cleared snow from the car and started it up. We weren’t able to plug the car’s engine heater in over night and with the plummeting temperature, we were a bit worried it might not start. We drove the car to town and had a walk round shops, as us usual buying nothing. There was a nice ski jacket for David, a bright orange Helly Hansen, but at €250 without a removable lining it would probably be too warm for New Zealand, they are after all designed for the Arctic.
We waited for Katja to come home from work to let her in (we had her door key) and then took Nena out for a walk. We intended walking a loop around the block, but relented when Nena wanted to walk through a forest park. We ended up walking round in a figure of eight, but we got see a few more streets and managed to stay of the busier main roads.
Once Petri arrived home, we all left to go to Comico, a Texmex restaurant, for dinner. Maria went for a delicious salmon & spicy prawn combo served with a healthy jacket potato. David, as usual, went for a more unusual choice (or perhaps it was because of the translation from Finnish to English), tortilla crumbed pork with jack and blue cheese filling, smothered in a pepper sauce with crispy fried potatoes on the side. Sounds a bit weird, but it tasted fantastic.
Being cheapskates, we bought a 3 litre box of Gato Negro Chilean wine from Alko and a Vienetta from thedairy for dessert at home.
Maria had finished building her photo books of her Round the World trip 5 years ago and finally got round to ordering them. There was an offer that finished at midnight and it was touch and go whether the upload would complete in time. It did, just before midnight and now we just need to keep our fingers crossed the books arrive before we leave for New Zealand.
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