a trip to Finland- a mixture of shopping and sightseeing

Monday morning 7am on our way to Finland Haparanda/Tornio, it only took 4 1/2hrs with pauses inbetween, so university is longer :D

It was actually sunny all the time, just when we wanted to go somewhere for a walkout it startet to rain-typical. So we were not outside walking that much, dogs still enjoyed it, they saw a lot of new things and places, Finouks favorite was to watch the people on the camping.

I'm glad that they enjoy driving, they are always laying on eachother or watching outside the window, especially amazed by trucks.

So we arrived in Haparanda (the swedish side of the city) and the first thing we did was having lunch-guess where- IKEA :D Yes and here we go, that was actually the reason travelling to Haparanda, the next IKEA here is in Sundsvall and that would take 6hrs plus that you can't pay with euros in Sundsvall. And of course it was long ago that we've been to Finland so it was not only a shoppingtrip, of course we also wanted to see something :) So after checking in on the camping (in Tornio, so on the finnish side we unpacked the car and continued our journey to Kemi. Weather was great, but windy though.

Confusing about Haparanda/Tornio is, that they have different times. on the swedish side its one hour earlier than in Tornio. My mobile was probably confused as well, it asked me if i want to update the time to match the new timezone-nothing weird, but it didn't stop asking me and I could neither say "no" because it didn't stop asking me the same question so I actually couldn't do anything. And even when I said "yes" it asked me all the time again so while clicking on "yes" all the time it was suddenly 6hrs later. So I switched it off-funny thing: it even asked me when we were in sweden again.

So far was the trip quite funny, but I have to say the worst thing about Finland is the fact that you don't understand one single word, you cannot even guess what it could mean, starting with the word "center" in cities, it means "keskusta". Ok, I could check it before next time but come on, in almost every country you can at least understand "center".

As I know from a friend there is not really a logical part in that language. I only see a lot of i,a,ä and k, especially twice, there was only one similarity. I saw it when I went to LIDL (yeah, they have it in Finland too) where I was quite amazed, but they probably jsut tried to let the german word sound finnish? I mean come on, "braatvursti" ?? or "frankfurternakki" ??

So after long days of shopping and driving around to see something we spent the evenings on the camping, being lazy, watching tv. Dogs where quite tired as well, all these new impressions. But Finouk always takes the time to spent it with Emil, it's so cute to see them together, another kind of lovestory ;)

The second day in Finland did we spend in Kukkolaforsen where you can see rapids and a cute old village. We even had the possibility for a long walk in the sun, dogs enjoyed it :)

So besides all that nature we went to IKEA as I mentioned, actually wanted to buy new bedroom furniture for me, but for some reason they don't send beds, you have to buy it and transport it yourself. Stupid, how am I supposed to buy a bed with a Nissan Micra? Any suggestions? Or ideas why they don't send it? Bought a lot of other stuff -big stuff as well- and they send it, so why not the bed? aaah, annoying. I want my bigger bed-now !!! :-(

So back home again, continuing renovating the house but at first I've gotta sleep looooong tomorrow, my bed is a pillowparadise right now, guess Finouk will enjoy it ;)

byebye everyone, and plz pardon my english, I'm tired ;-p

royal wedding

Today swedens princess Viktoria married her Daniel :)

The dress was plain and simple, but I loved the bridal veil. Turned on the tv 8.00 this morning and watched it while painting the kitchen :-P 15.30 they finally entered the church and came out as husband and wife :) It was so cute, she was smiling all the time and Daniel tried very hard not to cry ;) all in all it was a beautiful wedding, you finally get the same feeling and desire to get married haha ;) but it was quite long, all that stuff around, all that music and speaches, poor Viktoria ;) 8pm the dinner will start and 11pm the cake, hmmm that will probably look very tasty..

So that was (well still is) the big day in Sweden, lots of people went to Stockholm, I was happy infront of my HD tv ;D and don't think that I missed anything, wouldn't pay so much money anyway just to see them..

I wish them all the best for their future life, they seem to be a very happy couple and I hope that they will have great years together..

bored? no I just don't know where to start !!

Sooo many things to do- the fence, plants, wallpapers, new laminate, walls to paint and and and..

glad that there's only the laminate left in my bedroom, next week I'll buy the new furniture :) but thats not it, beside all the stuff in the garden there are so many rooms left to do, and i just dont know where to start- 210 m² plus basement and under the roof.. still have to buy some stuff as well, so I actually need a bigger car to get the stuff home but I just checked, for a big transporter I'd have to pay about 300€, same with sending home from the store !! imagine, 140€ of that would be for the journey about 86km !!! Its driving me nuts, I don't know why it is so expensive to send something in sweden, they're weird :D

Anyway, today I cut myself, sometimes you should look where the nails are, otherwise it might hurt ;) Sun is shining, about 17°C and a bit windy- just in case you care ;D Kira is sleeping and Finouk is running around, looking for food-not that they just had dinner.. :D

Oh and my dear friend Anne got a blog now as well, she did that for the time she'll be in sweden, august 2010 to january 2011, she already started from her university trip to greenland, check it out, its great :) as long as you understand german ;)

http://putzemon.blogspot.com/

working hard..

these past days I did quite some things in the house and garden, the fence around the 2000m² area is getting longer every day, same with the hedge..

Even inside the house a lot of things start to look more and more like rooms where people actually live, can you imagine that there still are movingboxes around here? well, not that we never opened them, but we but a lot of things back again because of missing space in that house-imagine, stuff from a 80m² flat in a 210m² house and there is no space? ;)

anyway, trying to finish the rooms so that we can place all the cupboards to put the right things in it. And next week I'll be in finnland for some days vacation with the dogs and my new bedroom furniture where this wonderful pink floyd picture already embellishes my bedroomwall now, finally did that today when the wallpaper was done :)

so I guess there is not really more interesting stuff to tell besides the fact that my dogs always take my stuff, here you can see how kira takes over the whole sofa, including my new IKEA pillow which is very comfortable I have to say..

the only highlight I had was -even if not positve- that I had to go to the emergency on saturday morning with my mum, but its ok again, nothing to worry about even if that day was just shit then..

Otherwise same old story every day actually, awake around 6.30am to have a walk with the dogs, then work, lunch, work, involuntarily sleep, work, dinner, movie, computer, sleep..

waiting for somethin interesting to happen but I'm not quite sure about that, decided to meet some friends in norsjö when I'm back from finnland :)

Pink Floyd

can you believe, Roger Walters is coming to sweden (well, everywhere ^^ ) summer 2011, "the wall" live :) that would be great to go there... but I just checked, haha- one ticket from 119€ to 319€ (!) depending where you wanna sit xD and dont forget the trip to stockholm :-P
good that there is x-mas and my birthday hahaha :D

*ha! just checked sweden (that were the tickets from germany) and there you only have to pay 86€ for economy :)

relationships

today I saw that program on tv about internet relationships and it made me think.. I really wonder how you can call something a "relationship" when you actually never met? how can you say that you love that person just by chatting and calling? and dont forget about the physical part..
anyway, I dont think that you can love someone or say that you have a relationship (that kind where you say you're not single anymore) when you actually never met.

sure, you can get to know someone via internet and you can have a feeling of attraction, even possibly have a feeling of falling in love-which is something totally different from actually being in love..

My friend asked me "are you together then when you finally meet?" yeah, what do you think?
can you say that you have a (love)relationship when you meet for the very first time even if you "know" eachother for lets say 3 or 4 years? gosh, imagine being together with someone for 2 years without having seen eachother one single time !! horrible, I'd die..

I dont say that you cant get to know someone via internet, but without even meeting you cannot possibly call it a real love relationship. Especially when you live far away from eachother..
But even if you meet then for the very first time you cant directly say "he's my boyfriend" :-p
first of all you have to see if it really fits, maybe he or she is absolutely not like it in person, who knows.. but everyone should have the chance to meet though :)

just be careful with the word love..

swedens national day

summertime

finally done with university !! now i have 3 months off, just the weather is more spring than summer... and the day at university was so unnecessary, was there 5hours and thats it ! we could have done this via internet, writing about it instead of sitting there..


but i had the dogs with, was shopping in sundsvall and went to skulleberget with the dogs where they even could swim for the very first time this year :) and it was the first time for finouk, but she did not really swim, she was kinda walking and jumping as far as she could, but at least she got used to it and we can continue training when its a bit warmer again.. but they had a lot of fun :)



but swimming and walking around the whole day, sure they got tired as well ;D

härnösand camping

waiting in the car while packing everything :-P

on our way back, two dogs sleeping in the car, laying on each other :-p

they just love it

and of course, my music everywhere, todays technology :)

so that was härnösand, now back home, and still all windy, hope that we'll have better weather soon, now I'll mow the lawn and then will see.. got a lot to do this summer in the house and everything around, maybe some days inbetween off, going somewhere with the dogs, far away in swedens nature, visiting moni and going to haparanda to buy some furniture for my bedroom- IKEA of course ;)

leaving

hi there guys, will be gone until friday, on my way to university tomorrow morning..
and everybody follows so will be out for a naturetrip with the dogs as well and some shopping :)
today was nice, great weather, outiside in the garden :) dogs enjoyed it as always

see you soon :)