Christmas and Orangutangs

Christmas was very nice this year. We spent it in Liljendal with super a lot of snow and our friend Natalia joined with Faro's best play mate Vasco. They loved running in the snow. When we got back to Helsinki Faro slept like a stone the whole evening, he was so tired from running around and playing. My sister's dog Johka also joined in on Christmas Eve.

We all got spoilt with the presents and I was very happy to finally get a new phone :-) Once I get used to it I hope I can start blogging from the phone as well and hopefully manages to post something a bit more often.

The best Christmas present of all was however the Orangutang adoption Stefan got me. I got soo touched! He really knows me well :-P

He adopted for me the cutest orangutang baby called Luna ( He might have wanted to tease a certain friend by chosing this one ! :-P)

Anyway, look how cute she is:

They are just adorable :-)

I fell in love with the cuties when we saw BBC's Orangutang Diary series.



If you wanna help too, you can go to to

Save the Orangutang

or

Redapes.org

Asian Dinner

My Chinese colleague from my old job invited us for dinner. Its already probably a month ago but I wanted anyway to write about it because it was a cool experience.

For appetizers we had Vietnamese spring rolls which was not only a tasty experience but also a practical one as we could fix them ourselves. As we didn't remember to take any pictures of the whole procedure I suggest you look at the video and imagine us doing it...which would be a lot more messy :-D But it was yammi!

For dinner we had traditional Chinese dumplings which I have tasted before. They look a bit like Italian Ravioli and basically I guess they are a bit the same - filled pasta. Perhaps only Chinese pasta is a bit different and the filling as well. And spicier sauce, which I liked! :-)

After eating came my favorite part of the dinner. We were completely stuffed so, we could not have managed to eat much more sweets but, instead, we had the privilege to have our own Chinese tea tour. It was so cool! Usually I don't drink too much tea but the tea they had was brought from China and was completely different from what you get in the store here. She told me she only buys the brand she knows does not use any chemicals. It was so amazing, we had black tea and white tea and green tea and different variants from those. I was so sold! I could just imagine ourselves sitting in a Chinese tea house chatting and sipping away:-)

She had of course the real Chinese tea set as well.

To round the whole dinner off we ate a fruit called honey pomelo. Hadn't myself tasted it before. It had a tick skin and not so much taste but it was ok.

Wow! I can be lucky!

I won today a trip to Manchester with Easyjet! Made my day! I didn't think acctually no one ever won those things :-)

Better start planning when to go...:-)

Anyone who has been tehre who can give us any good tips on what to do?