Prue's Blogg

The first time I was in Australia I attended a youth camp organized by LIONS in Halls Gap national park in Victoria. It was great and I am forever thankful to the LIONS organization for making it possible for me to go to Australia so young. We got to meet other people from all over the world and it was so much fun! We did everything from rock climbing to gold panning.

Here's a view of the magnificent scenery there is in Hall's Gap:


I do recommend a trip to Halls Gap if you are the active outdoor type! Please remember though that it can be cold in Victoria during Australian winter's.



With some of the people from the camp I am still from time to time in contact with (at least facebook friends ;-) ) .

Some moment's ago I received an e-mail from one of our camp leader's, Prue, about her new blog, I quote:

"For a while we've been talking about the lack of websites with ideas on what to feed kids, how to keep the entertained and where to take them. My and I have decided to take action and have started a blog at http://nestlingblog.wordpress.com/ ."

Feel free to read about the life of Aussie mums if you're interested :-) Even if I do not have kids I think I will try on the risotto recipe, looks yummy!

Esperanza

Last week I heard by mistake that Esperanza Spalding will be in Helsinki and I said "oh, I would like to go" so Stefan ,as the real gentleman he is, bought me tickets :-)

So we headed to the new Jazzbar in Helsinki called Birdland. She was there with her band Elm trio. They were really good, even though I think that Stefan thought it was a bit too Jazzy. It was true that they were much more Jazzy than only Esperenza by herself as I was used to hear her. But I did enjoy hearing them and it is amazing seeing the musicians play. The things she does with her voice is impressive and it's even more impressive to see that she is playing the bass at the same time and still manages to keep the voice so clear. In the end we did not stay the whole gig though. Not because we didn't want but we were quite tired and had to work today. Perhaps next time she is in Finland we can see her again :-)

This is the song I fell in love with maybe a year ago.



If you want to hear her newer sound check out her myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/esperanzaspalding

Holidas are Over

This summer holidays we decided to stay in Finland for several reasons. One because we wanted to enjoy being with Faro now when he is still young and learning new things all the time, two because we wanted to work on the house in Liljendal and three because we just wanted to stay here for once during the light months.

It was a good decision, we enjoyed watching Faro little by little learning to swim, now he swims like a champion and he is a fast swimmer as well :-) We managed to also buy a lot of stuff for the house and fix a little bit of this and a little bit of that. As a bonus it was one of the warmest summers in looong time, they even classified it as tropical weather as we had more than 20 degrees during the nights and we broke the heat record in Finland. All in all we enjoyed it!

We are now very excited about Friday as Stefan's brother and wife are visiting us. Let's hope the weather stays nice and that they enjoy the stay!

Go Spain!

Even if I am not into football too much I am very happy Spain won the world cup! Iker did a super nice save during the 15 minutes I watched. I couldn't watch more as my nerves were so tense after only 15 min. Specially after this almost goal from Holland: (the sound is wierd in the video but I couln't find any better.)



I wonder if Finland will ever even qualify for the world cup :-D Well, congrats Spain! I will go back to enjoing my holidays now :-)

Exercise for Man and Dog

Heheheee, This would be funny to teach Faro:


Dog and Owner Exercise

(click on the video to see it)

BTW, anyone interested in tickets for Pori Jazz on thursday 22:nd?

Check the stage and the program here.

Day Cruise to Tallinn

Usually when we go for a Day cruise to Tallinn we take the Viking Line or Silja Line boat. My dad took a rowing boat and some buddies :-D

21 people, (doing shifts of 14 people 40 km per time), ~120 km and 11 hours. The way back they relaxed on the motorboat :-)

I hope that when I am his age my hobbies will be similar :-D

Some pics of some stuff we've done lately

Been busy with the following lately (not necessary in the correct order):

Mini-holiday in Gothenburg, Sweden visiting lovely Ida.



Dog training Retrieving:



Dog training Agility:

Changing the to the summer tyres(with some help from Dad):



Fixing nice stuff in the roof in our house (fixing not so nice but result-very nice):

Faro also had his first lake experience:


And we did some control guarding in the orienteering Finnish Championships:



While I'll try to catch up with myself you can enjoy Stefan's video of " the Orange Bullet"

http://hellsinking.blogspot.com/2010/05/faro-la-bala-naranja.html