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?

White Knuckles

This video I wanted to post ages ago but forgot all about it :-) I wonder how much work they put into making it:

Dance

I've been completely hooked the last weeks on the Finnish version of the program "so you think you can dance". The Dancer's have been amazingly good and the choreographies as well. My favorite choreoghrapher in the program was defenitely Reija Wäre. Her choreograhpies were just amazing.

She did all my favorite performances:

Dance - Videot | Nelonen.fi

Dance - Videot | Nelonen.fi

Dance - Videot | Nelonen.fi

There was of course so much more different dance styles represented in the competition but these were defenitely the once that stayed in my mind.

The dance that opened the whole competition was also good:

Dance - Videot | Nelonen.fi

I am proud that in this small cold country they managed to find such great dancers :-)

In the end Sam won and he defenitely deserved it. At one point he did this reeeaallly slow perfect piruett and it just showed what a perfect control he has over his body.

Dance - Videot | Nelonen.fi

Hopefully we see more of him in the future :-)

In the final show the national ballet was performing and aaaaaaaaw how I adored it! It made me wonder why I have not yet visited the ballet. I so need to go and bring a pack of napkins as well because I will for sure cry.

Dance - Videot | Nelonen.fi

I understand if no one will have the patience to go through all those videos but I am so thrilled I can't help sharing the experience :-D

I have a fridge in my shoe

New York New York

We went to New York and during that time our little boy had an accident, you can check Stefan's blogg for some pics on the poor little one while he had to keep his leg in a bandage. Luckily he should be fine unless the hip will be dislocated again, we just have to be very patient and skip agility and other fun stuff until his leg is strong enough again.

We had anyhow a fab time in New York, these pics are taken by our friend Ninnu who joined us in the trip, she's great at taking photos.










After this lovely trip we have run a few times to the Vet and now we are taking Faro swimming and to the physiotherapist also. Perhaps Stefan will put up some pics from that because it was quite interesting. But whatever it takes to make him well again :)