yesterday, we were getting ready to leave the country by the end of the week. we finally got the car registration and i was all lists, coffee with friends and last minute errands. but now that our dormant healthcare system decided to wake up, and schedule the surgery my (pratically) mom-in-law needs (and has been waiting for the last 5 months), i guess we’re looking at another month or so on this sunny country.
like a bucket of cold water in the head, it feels sudden, yet… refreshing. we’ve been running around like headless chicken for the past month, and i hope that for whatever time her recovery takes, we’ll be able to tie some loose ends and slow down. that brings us to the topic of helsinki/finland, which i have been postponing for the past month. so let’s catch up.
you know how the favorite parts of a trip often don’t come in your guidebook?
this one was a bit unexpected: squirrels! when nathalie & mikko proposed that we take a walk on seurasaari island to see the squirrels, i jumped at the idea! we barely get to see them around here (nevermind shanghai)… so, armed with a supply of peanuts and cameras, we wandered the island looking for squirrels.
they weren’t too shy, and once you found one, many more seemed to magically appear in the horizon, and before you know it they were coming at us from all sides, crawling up our legs to get that one delicious peanut! they took them all, of course, and we came back home with happy smiles and an endless supply of shaky photos… (they’re so fast!)
if you’re going to helsinki, don’t miss it! :)
3 replies on “squirrels!”
CUTE!
You’re so right about how the best things we find during our trips are usually not in guidebooks. I keep thinking about that all the time whenever we travel.
Good luck for your mum-in-law’s surgery. Hope she recovers soon. :)
Not having sqirrels here in Australia I am surprised at how small they are. I always imagined them to be bigger.
Nice pics ! Mine are there: http://picasaweb.google.com/nathalie.lefever/20090830SquirrelsInSeurasaari# and you’re in one of them, too :)
Glad you liked it, but to be honest, they don’t come that easily the rest of the year, it’s mainly at the end of summer and in autumn, when the young ones have grown enough to see a lot of humans, and they are searching for food to store for the winter.
Good luck for Paulo’s mum’s surgery, and I’m glad you have still a bit of time to relax before another move… Enjoy :)