Larsen's European Vacation - Day 12 - Helsinki

We left Päivi's house early on Tuesday morning and took the bus to Helsinki. We had a whole day in Helsinki to walk around and shop. I asked Jake hours later if he ever went shopping with his mom and he said:"No, I hate shopping." Well, hmmm....we are going to shop all day today, like it or not. Sorry buddy.


While Rod was looking at clothes at Sokos, Alex and Jake found some snazzy white blazers to try on.


We had a Chinese lunch with my second cousin, Suvi and her husband Repe. It was so good to see them after 3 years.


Suvi and I. I spent all my summers playing with Suvi (lived next door to Kauppila) when I was young.

Our family at Tuomiokirkko.

We wanted to go to Fazer and sit down for a minute and enjoy their pastries.

Yes, you counted correctly. There were 4 of us and 5 desserts. We shared. They were all delicious as expected.

We went to Anne's house for dinner. Anne is my very oldest friend. We went to the same school for 9 years and sang together in the conservatory choir for almost 10 years and literally spent every waking moment together growing up. She had prepared the most wonderful dinner and we enjoyed getting to know her husband Eero and kids, Mitja and Pinja. We are hoping to have them in our home next time.

Best friends from years ago. It was like no time had passed. Thank you Anne and Eero for having us for dinner.

After dinner we hopped on the train back to Jyväskylä.