It's a beautiful world: The one with the Vappu

hi there!

So, mayday, 1st of May, Vappu Day over here in Finland. This is the day where everywhere else they celebrate international worker's day. Here on the other hand to celebrate the 'beginning of the summer', in a way, and it's the day for the graduates of LUKIO, the highschool, to wear their graduation caps. So all all-time graduates wear their white caps which is a really nice to see in the city.

So, since this day is celebrated by going out to center and to Kaivopuisto, a big park in Helsinki, we also decided to leave early on Tuesday and see what's happening there. Well, as customary, the city was full of people, once we reached the park, people were everywhere picnicking, food laid in front of us. As a joke, I told N to choose from the crowd which cuisine he wants to have, since EVERYTHING was available and on sight.

But we had our own sandwiches and some fruits and nuts. My sister also joined us later and we stayed for an hour or so. It was really cold so we headed back to the center walking. It was a really nice walking path that my sister showed us and we enjoyed it very much.

Before Vappu, we celebrated our 4th Bollywood night the previous Saturday. Our friends Laura and Tuomas came over along with a friend I hadn't seen for ages. She and her boyfriend came too to watch a bollywood movie and eat some indian food. The movie this time was Kal Ho Na Ho. They said the movie was too fast to follow which I totally agree on, specially if mother tongue is not English and you have to read subtitles all the time. Our newcomers were not probably sold by the whole Bollywood concept but I think our friends L & T will keep following the tradition :)

Today after having a long holiday ( sat, sun, mon and tue) I woke up and didn't feel like preparing lunch for us at all. N tried to wake me up earlier but I was so sleepy. I knew when to get up just to fresh up and eat breakfast and leave. I had prepared everything but by the time I was already in the bus stop waiting for my bus to take me to work, I noticed just seconds before the bus arrived at the stop that I had forgotten my bus card in my yesterday's bag. Yes. So I had to go back home again to pick it up but before I did that I called N to search it for me and take it to the main door for me to grab it, but as I was approaching our place up the hill, N was already walking towards me, in his night dress. It was so cute and so gentleman of him. I made it to the second bus just in time.

And yesterday after taking my sister to my mom's place ( I drove the car alone, N stayed at home) I have to start practicing the driving again since my second driving part will start at the end of this month and I have to make it for I need my permanent driving license after that. Ok, so after I visited my mom and stayed there to talk for a while, I came home to iron the sofa pillow covers I had washed and by the time I was on the divan sofa cover I burned it totally! Yes. the instructions of the cloth really showed not to iron but I gave it a try since it was very wrinkly. So N had to go to Ikea to buy a new cover and we a have a new divan all over again!

For dinner today we had lentils with coriander/spinach and lemon. It was sooo good N ended up eating everything, even without rice because it was already finished by his second serving. I also had a side dish; ecuadorian ripe green banana, it was delicious! I love bananas! Unfortunately there is no pictures of today's dinner.

How was your Mayday like?