Our third day of touring Helsinki went pretty uneventfully. We started out at the
Rock Church, built in the 1960s, which was just a few blocks from our hotel. The church was built into the rockside in the center of several blocks of apartments, the interior was blasted out with dynamite, and the left-over rocks used to build the walls up above the rock; and the whole thing is topped off with a copper roof.

We then headed out to a more residential part of town to tour Alvar Aalto's office, only to discover that there was a 20 person per tour limit, and our group of 13 wouldn't be allowed in without a special appointment. To occupy ourselves while we were waiting for the Aalto house tour, we ate lunch at what is possibly the nicest McDonald's I've yet to see - louvered wooden sunshades, designer interior. The Aalto house was pretty cool, seeing where he and his family lived, and some of his original furniture and art designs.

We finished out the day by visiting the Finland Design Forum, a collection of fashion and interior designs by designers throughout Finland, and then finishing our scavenger hunt throughout Helsinki.

Today we went to Kiasma, the Modern Art Museum, by Stephen Holl. We also visited the Artek Pavillion by Shigeru Ban, and the Museum of Finnish Architecture.