Sunday

What a wonderful weekend!Can't remember the last time I had enjoyed so many different things, real variety, good company and excellent weather! We've been blessed now with it for days, maybe I already keep repeating myself but now we've got winter at it's best; sunshine and a lot of snow!

So, last night at 8pm me and Päivi went skiing on ice. The local skiing club organizes a "Moonlight Skiing" each year in March, they make a track on ice and have tens of big candles and fires to show the way. The track was a little over 5 kilometers and I enjoyed every centimeters of it!! My thighs are aching a little but the pain gives me pleasure this time...

This morning I went to Turku, first to the Turku Castle to see a wonderful exhibition of C.G.Mannerheim, a very important person in the history of my country. I never realized how much he had travelled, and liked that part of the exhibition most; the photos and souvenirs from those trips he made over 100 years ago. You can read more about Mannerheim in here.

Then I went to visit my dear grandmother who will be 87 years old later this year. I love her very deeply, she has always been "my hero". When the winter war against The Soviet Union started at 1939 my grandmother was 20 years old and living in Karjala (Carelia), she had to leave her home and she and her family had practically nothing when they left, and still she has had a very good life and she has never complained about anything!

Then, a great way to end a good day, I went to the movies to see "Brokeback Mountain". I'll digest that wonderful film for a while and will write my thoughts about it tomorrow.

Hyvää yötä!