Monday, August 1, 2011

July 30-31

    On the morning of July 30th (Saturday), Sandra and I packed and left around 1pm to this family/friend gathering of Sandra's friend, Irene. Irene told me that it was a yearly tradition, where her relatives as well as friends of relatives would gather at a rented cottage house by the lake, friday to sunday, and camp out in tents. We arrived to the site with Saana and we first set up our tent. We sat around, played some Finnish game composed of standing wooden logs that you had to hit with a throwing log, went to a food store not far from the cottage house, ate, and eventually we used the sauna (at around 10-11pm; none of us had any clue what time it was and its hard to tell  what time it is judging from the sky, as its pretty much light for the most part). I also met these two girls from Helsinki, whom I enjoyed talking to and spending time with. After we used the sauna (meaning that we sat in the sauna for a couple of minutes, went out to jump into the lake, came back to the sauna, and repeated the process several times), everyone gathered into a room inside the cottage to watch a couple films produced by one of the individuals who rented out the cottage; they were quite interesting. After that, we decided to go sit by a camp fire to grill sausages as well as to warm up (it was pretty cold; those prepared had on coats, scarves, and sweatpants, unlike me, who had to borrow a cardigan from Saana). After spending some time there with other people, we decided to go to bed, as it was already past 2am, but not before spending some time dancing inside with another lone guy and only the dj playing music.
     Although the ground wasn't bumpy, it was pretty cold, so I kept on waking up in the night from having my foot too cold. At one point in the early morning, I woke up confused; wondering if I am finally comfortably warm after a chilly night, or uncomfortably warm from the sun shining on our tent. It turned out to be the latter case and eventually we woke up at 10 am, as the heat was becoming rather a nuisance.
     We went to use the sauna for a while before eating breakfast. After we ate, we had to rather quickly pack up our stuff as well as the tent in order to catch the next bus home.
     Once at home, I chilled and read for the most part, before joining Sandra's friends by the lake; we had a mini picnic. Eventually, we had to go home, as it was already late and went to bed.

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