fur-lined crocs anyone?

i spent some time on the couple of days after we got back from katinkulta wandering around exploring the place a wee bit, first ylämylly then joensuu town centre. Saw a couple of beautiful sunsets (before 3.30pm!) though the sun doesn't have to go far to set as it barely makes it above the trees. And a perfectly silhouetted figure skater - tried going skating in the same place the following day but i can't say i did her justice, at all. The river that runs through/presumably terminates at joensuu (="river's mouth") is lovely. Today we went west a wee ways to heinävesi to visit some friends of the nokelas who have a tiny 2 month old baby. Juuso, me and their eldest boy went skiing/boarding at the local mäki. Pretty small field but with a great view from the top of the slope. I'd forgotten how much i dislike using a t-bar on a snowboard though. After i'd fallen off it one too many times (twice) i decided i'd trade my board for skis and had just made it to the top of the lift when i got a call from Juuso. The other kid (Rasmus was his name!) had had a bad fall and wound up spending much of the rest of the day at the hospital getting a cast put on his broken wrist, his mum had just bought the season pass the day before too. So that was the end of that, not the best note to go out on.
Tomorrow i'm off to kuopio to smother myself in feelings of nostalgia.