Northern most McDonalds

Made it to Rovaniemi!

We are Finnish-ed with this place

Ad in a map of helsinki

Ok, I'm missing the kids. Ready for some hugs and kisses. There are tons of kids out and about everywhere we go. I cant wait to see mine again.

Estonia!

Spent our one day in Helsinki...in Estonia. Took a two hour ferry across the Baltic sea and wandered among buildings built in the 1200s. Absolutely awesome. Just what I imagine European tourism to be.

Easily made it to Helsinki on a quick plane trip. Rain was falling when we got here, but it looks to be clearing up. One more day, then we will start the adventure home.

24 hour sunshine

just went out at 11pm to check out the sun. This was the first time we have seen the sun in several days. Clouds have blown away and it is beautiful outside! Wish it was so nice at 2pm this afternoon. Now, we aren't feeling so sleepy.

Rovaniemi in a day

Arctic Circle! also Santa's Village, a reindeer, cool Lapland museum, and a cheesy forest museum.
Going to do some sitting tonight in our private sauna.
Tomorrow - heading to Helsinki on an airplane.

Adventure on the train

Well, everyone can make a mistake, right? We discovered on of mine this morning when the conductor pointed out the our train tickets were actually booked for tomorrow. Sigh. But, without being kicked off the train, thrown in jail, or even charged a penalty, we are safely still on our journey. He rolled his eyes, took our itenerary, called the station and moved the date to today. Thank you nice conductor man! Now we can Finnish our trip. Ha ha ha

North

Heading up north to Rovaniemi today. It is just south of the arctic circle. Not sure of our wifi access, so posts might slow down a bit.