I have received many requests recently enquiring why I do not attach pictures on my blog. I appreciate dear friends that you have such an interest to my blog and I keep telling that attaching pictures is so time consuming and my free time is zero. That´s life being as a mother. I can manage to write twice a week blog after Toivo falling asleep, but soon after  him I also say "kops" and fall asleep. It is getting hotter and I feel more tired. So, many excuses for not attaching pictures. Not an excuse is that I do not want to attach people´s pictures in here for many reasons.

Well, at least I will have two public holidays next week, Monday and Tuesday, and little more time then. The Vietnamese celebrate Wappu, too. Actually they start on Thursday this week which is a new public holiday, King Hung´s  birthday. Most of my colleagues will take Friday off as well and again Mon-Tue is free of work. It is interesting to see how they celebrate labor day in a socialistic country. We first had a plan to travel to the coast but were too late to book tickets, so all were booked already.

We have booked holiday tickets to Finland, leaving on 14 June for one month, Pekka staying couple of weeks longer. We have no plans but staying in Kajaani. May be visiting Kuopio and Oulu for a day or too. So,  I have to warn you all, if you want to meet us, welcome to Kajaani!! Well, may be a night in Helsinki both directions as it seems that we should pay a fortune for domestic flights in case of taking the most direct flights. Typical Finnair. Although I have to say that they had a very good sale last weekend, Bangkok flight for 449 euro. That means that we shall get filling to our Presidentti coffee store because Mervi and Teemu got tickets here a day after Toivo´s birthday.

We are planning to celebrate Toivo´s birthday arranging a housewarming and birthday at the same time. Approximately 25 Finns will be invited, most of them have invited themselves already. Like last weekend, when there was another party. Quite interesting, we found out that there are at least four husbands, whose profession is "spouse" at the moment. I guess more you may find from a Swedish party, but hardly anywhere else. One step towards gender equality.

Kept following the political situation in FI. So far Paavo has behaved well, hope we all were wrong. At least it was a victory to Lapland, wasn´t it?