Getting ready

Monday, June 15, 2009
When I got up this morning to go to work I found an email from the b&b in Rauma where we had reservations for this Friday and Saturday. Guess what!! It's midsummer in Finland, and the proprietors decided they wanted to go out of town to their kesamokki (summer cottage). After writing that just about everything (restaurants, shops, museums) in this small city would be closed and the city "empty," they suggested that the would leave breakfast materials in the refrigerator for us and their 15-year old son would meet us if we could give an estimated time of arrival! Naturally, this didn't sit well with Himself, nor me, actually, when I came to think of it! It would be okay if the city itself were open, and if the 15-year old wasn't going to be there, but the combination of nothing to do, or see, and the possibility of having a surly 15-yrold in residence was quite unattractive. So, I found us a reservation in a bigger city, still on the sea, in Turku.

This evening I'll be sending an updated itinerary around to the family - since I didn't send the original to you yesterday, the only one you get will be the current one! Lots more to get done before we leave tomorrow - from buying a new sun hat, a skirt, and packing to cleaning up the house. But, tomorrow morning Corynn will come to do some cleaning so we can return to a neat, clean, and clean smelling house! Our plan is to walk down the hill about noon tomorrow and take the #3 bus to the Metrodome, where we can switch to the LRT to go to the airport - using my GoTo! card it will cost about $4 altogether!