Celebrating ...

We received an important milestone in our exciting new web project, and celebrated it with few glasses of nice champange in the morning. My friend from Meidokan Ari Mahlanen is working for Alko and he recommened Nicolaus Feiullatte which I then bought 4 bottles ... Thanks for the tip Ari - great stuff !

Tero-Markus had a perfect idea to have a open doors during the evening in some bar/pub in downtown Helsinki for the whole team. I supported the idea and recommended Punavuoren Ahven which is specialised in Belgium Beers. Time did fly ;o) and we sat in that very same pub from 5pm to 2am. Had loads of good talks and ideas of which to be honest of some latter ones I don't actually remember too much of ... execpt that they were all extremely good of course ;o)

Wappu 2006

A normal Finnish Wappu behind ;o)
On Sunday had lots of fun again with Paula and Juha Elomaa - THX again !... On Monday I did some serious hangover recovery work by chopping firewood (about 1.5m2) and carried/rolled some heavy stones to our stone fence. Stupid (in terms of personal healthy) but effective.
In the evening we went to eat out to Teatteri restaurang which was very nice despite of what the photo is telling ;o) The boys always having their fair share of fight over space...

















Then a late stop over in Cafe Carousel - Valtteri enjoyed it like we did ;o)

















On the way back there was quite an amazing sunset - I could ~photograph it directly towards the sun.


...actually lot to remember again even though it was just another wappu.

Spring is here...

Otto and Vili were in Nuuksio for 2 nights with their boyscout team. I took them there on Friday and fetch thme back on Sunday... Ice is melting away even from small lakes and some first flowers break out from the icy ground.

From Helsingin Sanomat/Nyt

Helsingin Sanomat's weekly addition NYT-liite has run "kuin kaksi marjaa"/"Like two berries" series for several years now... This one about a week or two ago I rank to my personal top 10 ;o)

Valtsu in dentist....

Just to remember the shiny tiny man so proud of his shiny little teeth in "excellent condition" as the nurse stated... "Ei talvinnut polata ollenkaa !".

Sunset at Ruoholahti

Working a bit later today and had the change of see the sun setting down in Ruoholahti from the office...

Last words about Snowkite this winter

The magnificant snowkite pic is from www.snowkiter.co.uk/gallery .... Again.
I bumbed into it in thanks to a PubSub subscription stack item "Snowkite":



To summarize my snowkite season - lot's of trying to learn it, and then finally a reward in terms of 6.5 hours of speeding in Laajalahti ice on a very sunny day.
I had managed to however somehow get the bridles on the left side switched, and noticed back home that there were some serious wearing in bridles. That was the season for me unfortunately - snow and ice melted away while waiting new brdiles for Ozone. Danny in www.action-pact.co.uk was very helpful again in trying to get the bridles for me. Still waiting though.