Summer night driving and mine did go to 11...

I took Nina, Otto and Vili back to Helsinki from Pihtipudas at the end of the 3rd holiday week. The boys were quite firm (a mild understatement to be honest) in their opinions ("we have stayed here for ages... we must get back to the city!!") - Valtteri stayed in Pihtipudas with my sister Marja.


During the 4 days I was in Helsinki I managed to do some home building duties & efforts...










....Otto and I helped our friend Markus to get his "monster" boat finally to sea. This was a nice new experience to me and Otto. I've never been participating to "veneen vesille lasku". We also managed to see very closely the new Helsinki cargo harbour which is under construction right now. There were some amazingly BIG sea signs waiting to be put into their places. Also saw some very nice cottages and saunas on the way to Katajanokka where Markus keeps the boat.










....I build the 3.6m trampolin which was Vili's birthday present - I have not seen Vili so happy for so long so very often - he was smiling with every jump ! I gotta build one into his room.

Well, I then headed back to Pihtipudas on Tuesday evening at 8pm. I loaded the car with CD's and turned the car stereos on to "11" (Normal amplifiers go to 10... mine goes to 11/infinity). Roads were practically empty from Järvenpää to Jyväskylä, and after Äänekoski ther was almost literally nobody else than me (only some occasional trucks). Summer night was gorgeous, stereos were at 11 and the driving speed was hmmmm OK (452km in excatly 4 hours ;o)

In Ämmänsalmi bridge (near Viitasaari - beautifull place) I actually parked right into the middle of that bridge, opened the window and took some pics about the evening - no cars "disturbing" the event. I had my voice down almost completely since I was singing with the Egotrippi's CD "Vielä koittaa uusi aika" trying to compete with the amplifier's 11. That CD seems to be now geeting to be one of my all time favorites - I think I'm upto about 30 times listening now and that's since March when I bought it... which was noticeable also when I tried to put it on at car with Otto he cried "No 'Asfaltin pinta' !!!" (one of the best tracks in the CD). I did play "Asfaltin pinta" couple of times during the trip ... at 11 of course.
Then it was some days upto 5hours surfing with bursty lake winds, cooking & wine and ending the evening with sauna - that for 5 days - Nice ;o)