Love or Hate?

We woke up on Saturday morning, which happened to be also a May Day, First of May or Vappu. If you have read my blog long enough, you know that 'Vappu' is a huge celebration in Finland and other European countries. This is the day when families eat potato salad and hot dogs, eat donuts and drink "sima" (a citrus drink of sorts), the high school graduates wear their graduation hats outside, have big parties and frolic outside throwing serpentine and drink booze until they are hugely drunk. Since I moved to this country, one tradition in our family is that I make the homemade donuts. Nobody in our family likes "sima" so I don't make it.

Sooo...on Saturday morning before Skyping with my mom, I went downstairs to prepare the dough for the donuts and looked outside and saw that somebody was in a "Vappu" state of mind and had serpentined our tree. How thoughtful! Of course they had used only one color serpentine and I don't think white is a very nice color when you have ALL of those multi-colors to choose from. I think people love us so much that they wanted us to have a happy Vappu. Thanks people, whoever you are! Hopefully we get to re-pay you back.





Donuts were finished and Alex and I took them to my friends' Riikka's and Terhi's house. I left a few for Alex. I didn't have any. Willpower people! Willpower!

On Saturday to celebrate Vappu, I took Alex shopping for some new shirts for the cruise that's coming up in a week or so. Had lunch at a Mexican restaurant called "El Mexiquense" in American Fork. I remember Jorge telling us when he was living with us how much he missed Tacos Al Pastor, so when I read about this restaurant that they serve authentic Tacos Al Pastor, I decided that we would go there for lunch. And it didn't disappoint. They were SO good! Then went to a movie and saw a really bad movie called "Date Night". I sat there totally embarrassed. Luckily we have trained Alex to cover his eyes when there are some questionable scenes in the movie. I think he sat there with hands on his eyes for the last 10 minutes of the movie. Should have walked out. Elle called while we were at the movies and she was looking to hang out with us or mainly Alex. I wasn't sure what our plans would be later that night so she decided to hang out with her dad instead. Rod and Whitney were on a business trip to Kansas. Later we decided to go to Chef's Table for nice Vappu dinner, and Alex texted Elle that she was missing out. Bummer she couldn't come with us. The dinner was incredible, as always.

On Sunday morning, we woke up after a night of heavy rain and when I looked out the window, we saw that we got more love from somebody, or is it hate at this point? This time it was a soggy mess of TOILET PAPER. I couldn't consider it anymore to be serpentine because Vappu was over. I'm considering asking the person who did this that she/he would come to my house to do chores because I had to clean up their mess. I'm going to catch them, one way or another.