Hi folks! Sorry for the radio silence. I've had some personal issues to work out (nothing related to our relationship, travelling or anything and situations have calmed a bit so no worries) and Arno is busy being a soldier. Not too much time for updating and really nothing to tell when it feels like my whole life is jumping loops right now... Many things are about to change in the near future from my address to job and school. Have done plans from B to Z on what to do if the carpet gets pulled from under my feet. But I have hopes up that in the end everything will work out. Thank goodness for good friends, relatives and Arno! But now.. let me tell you something about my not yet ended weekend that has been so amazing and fun!
My throat was hurting and I barely made a sound so I got off from work early on Friday. Jumped into my car and drove home to enjoy my quiet time in front of Netflix. And by three o'clock I also found my so far hidden appetite and had to make some late lunch. Gave a call to my brother who I happened to wake up (because it is completely normal for a teenager to sleep 'til 3 pm). Asked him if he wanted to come for a sleepover to Arno's house at the country side and he mumbled that we was in so I told him to be ready since I'd pick him up in 45 minutes.
So I pulled my stuff together, jumped into the car and cruised to my parents - said hi to them since they had just returned from Ireland - and rushed my Luukas to the car. We listened to music as we drove the 45 minutes to the military base to pick up Arno. Got this amazing idea to turn the music up high and play a song called MAFIA as we drove down to the parking lot with our sunglasses on and windows down. Tho we were a little too scared to put it on loud and kind of just quietly rolled in a little ashamed. Arno laughed at us, jumped into the car and turned the music up twice as high waiving byes to his soldier buddies and pressing the gas. I guess he was happy to get off!
We flew buy a supermarket which was a baaaad idea to do that hungry because we found ourselves lining one kilogram of candy, chips, sodas and three bags of sausage and bacon to the cashier.. Well, we would not starve to death. At that we sure did not. Luukas got this awesome idea to cover the already bacon tasting sausages with bacon as Arno warmed up the grill. I was much happier with my BBQ-pinapples but never thought bacon-bacon-bacon-sausage would be that good! The things you learn hanging out with two boys!
We ate, grilled chocolate bananas, ran from angry bees and ended up laughing on the terrace floor. Then we sat down in the yard swing, ate some more, made jokes, talked and smoked some hookah until the sun went down. For the rest of the night we sat down for a comedy.
The next morning Arno made breakfast as I was doing my makeup and my teenage brother still sleeping. We hit the road after 11 am and started driving towards Tampere, a city two hours away from the capital. We stopped in the biggest mall, shopped without actually buying anything (Arno almost bought Helly Hansen shoes) and met my parents there for coffee and ice cream. Then we headed to my grandparents through a quick stop in our hotel. At my grandparents I finally saw my cousins, my cousin's boyfriend, my ant, uncle and their dog! They live in Germany - always have - and we used to visit them a lot more often but as both me and my brother have been living abroad and they travelling elsewhere it had been a whole 6 years since our last visit at their house. They live so up north that I haven't even passed by on my other trips to Munich or on our road trip. What a blast to meet everyone again! So much screaming, hugging and talking! That's the thing. Living far away from people close to you is hard, yes. You get used to it, yes. But when you see them again it's like nothing never changed and you forget that there was ever any time or space in between you.
After few hours of talking we started to head towards the harbor where we had a dinner cruise scheduled because of my ant's birthday. Too bad we couldn't get a taxi due the heavy rain and fitting 15 people to our cars wasn't a piece of cake either so Arno was supposed to pick me and my two older cousins up. And it was getting so late that Arno had to really gas through the city to catch the ferry, we ran from the parking lot, the captain promised to wait 5 minutes and we made it! In the ship there was this long table waiting for us and waiters serving us drinks. 3 hours of buffet food, talking, eating, live music, pictures and nice views. Arno and Luukas had a blueberry pie eating competition that they couldn't solve since the pie ran out before they got full.. Hahah! Oh my sweet boys!
When the cruise ended we headed back to the hotel and instead of taking our longboard for a night run as we had planed we decided to rest and steam the room with a warm shower since both of us were pretty sick still. But the next morning feeling a lot better! Headed down for breakfast (so nice when someone else cooks and cleans the dishes for you) and headed out to our cousins summer cottage they had rented. We tried fishing, Arno found some worms and I caught them (okay yeah I know they are not so fast)! But the fish ate our worms without getting caught themselves :( So no fish! So we got bored to that and jumped to the lake, even my grandma! When the sauna had gotten warm we sat in there enjoying the heat and rushed back to the cool water (I will so be sick tomorrow)! Then came the thunder that forced us back to sauna and up to the cabin to eat! My uncle is a cook and he was grilling so no one was complaining, so tasty! I ate so so much I really thought I would explode! Arno who is so tired of the not so nutritious food in the army had like 5 plates of beat, chicken, sausages, fish, cheese, ribs and vegetables. And obviously we had some dessert too! After this heavy amount of food we all lied down to siesta for a moment until we got an idea to go for a boat ride. Someone made out a point that the boat could hold only 3 people so that started the tight race down to the pier. All the six of us wanted to get in so we tried some limits and the boat floated just enough to carry us all! So there we were rowing and singing around the lake. Too bad that soon after that we had to hit the road to return Arno for the service of the Finnish army.
So that's about our weekend. I will be posting more soon but no promises made when. This week is gonna start a conglomeration of celebrations that will be my life the next few weeks! Hen parties, weddings, 50-years birthdays, engagement parties, our semi-annual day, dinners etc. But more about all that and everything else later! :)
Creetings,
Linnea
Creetings,
Linnea
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