kani kani kani

There are an awful lot of rabbits in Helsinki. Hiding in the shrubbery. Surprisingly so.
Anywho to polish up finland - the penultimate and ultimate days! On thursday we were planning on going to Kiasma (modern art gallery in Helsinki) with a few friends (potentially juuso, otto, stippe...). Kiasma morphed into a pancake party instead, Otto and Juuso came over to Milka's and then both fell asleep for a couple of hours while milka (and i sorta helped) cooked up a pancake storm, much better result i reckon! Think i managed to not leave the apartment at all that day :p The following day (friday the 16th) I finished packing up my stuff to send home - took a bit of effort to get the zip done up not to mention a fair dollop of cash to send it away that afternoon :S
Met up with Kiira for lunch in town then to Stippe's place for a dinner party of sorts. She had cooked a delicious white lasagne with three different types of cheese! YUM! Cut Milka's hair then headed back into town for iceskating in rautatientori and hot choc with tons of whipped cream and chocolate hail at M-Bar with Kiira again - perfect - then back to Haapaniemi to go see what we thought was gonna be Komposti Kopla playing live finnish reggae but turned out to just be computerprogrammed english reggae but still real fun while not quite realising our expectations.
Saturday was day zero. Milka and i watched the last episode of the L word season 5 (extremely important that that fit into the schedule!) then Veera, milka's sister, came over for a late brunch of everything delicious, milka even produced some pulla/korvapussi from the freezer. Veera was embarking on her trip to nepal that day too, starting with a ferry to Tallinn. Then it was onto my last tram ride to catch a bus to the airport to fly me to the other side of the world and summer sunshine! Which is where i am now, but more on that later :)
Flying when you're even vaguely still a bit sick is a fairly painful experience tho. But flying into London at night totally makes up for it. Also saw the lights of amsterdam on the way over - no red ones though. The landing in a windy London was a bit scary however and worthy of the applause it got! Flying over Brazil is spectacular (stopped in Sao paulo for around an hour). Testing out my minimal spanish on the very handsome argentinian sitting next to me was interesting, with his equally minimal english! The end.