We arrived at our final destination Kyläniemi yesterday. There was light rain in the afternoon but in the evening the sun came out and we had a nice time on the pier that belongs to our Mökki. Since our last visit in 2013 a few things have changed on the island: storms have taken down some trees so the woods aren’t that dense anymore and Arja has got some device that provides us with access to the internet. Not enough to upload tons of photos, but enough for simple posts!

My father, Arja and her daughter Kaarina, who will be with us for a few days too, went to Savonlinna yesterday to see an opera they bought tickets for months ago. So Nadine and me stayed in the Mökki all alone waiting for my birthday to come. We ended up doing something I did a lot with my mother when I was a child, but what went completely off the radar during the last decades: we solved a puzzle! Weirdly, it’s motive  was some African landscape. Do I need to say that we didn’t manage to stay up until midnight?