Well, I had a pretty uneventful flight from Calgary to Helsinki, got to see what Lady Gaga was all about from one of the in flight videos, and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. The show theme was 'Monsters Ball' and it was very well choreographed. Okay, I'm a little weird!
Upon arriving in Helsinki I had to catch a bus down to the main train station where Kärolin met me, and from there we caught a cab to the ferry terminal. It was quite rainy and stormy as we left the main train station for the ferry, and it never crossed my mind how rough this ferry ride might actually be. Well..........let me tell you.....it was ROUGH! In my estimation the seas were roughly 4 meters, and the bow of that ship was pitching at least that through every wave we encountered. In fact, we were sitting up better than half the height of the boat and the spray from the waves was blasting past our windows! It is actually making me nactious writing about it! Kärolin and I weren't the only ones experiencing the sea sickness though. There were numerous other passengers heaving, and ralfing into their plastic bags as well. Fortunately after my visit with ralf I felt somewhat better and was able to withstand the remainder of the 3 hour journey with a little bit of dignity :)
I will write more as my trip progresses. Kärolin and I have a few things planned so I will share more as we experience them.
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| Lufhansa Business Class with the new seat styling that extends almost like a bed! I WISH!!! |
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| Frankfurt Main. Definitely Lufthansa country! |
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| A lonely Air Canada jet amongst the White and Blue |
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| Interestingly a familiar sight in Helsinki. (Shell gas station) with the identical store front theme to those in Canada |
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| An atypical view of Tallinn's Old Town taken from my bus tour. |
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| Marina with the ferry terminal in the background |
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| The ferry that runs between Tallinn Estonia and Helsinki Finland. Hard to believe the seas would toss a ship of this size around as much as it did on our ferry ride from Helsinki! The seas were VERY rough that night, I'm guessing 4m swells. |
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| Estonia's famed 'Song Festival Grounds'. |
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| Notice the mist surrounding the ferry. It's constantly barraged by the waves of the Baltic Sea! Quite a ride let me tell you. I was introduced to ralf on that ship. |
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| Tallinn's TV Tower. The tower was abandoned for a number of years but is now being restored, and the Sky view restaurant plus a history exhibit for the tower will reopen sometime in the near future, 2012. |
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| Chef Kärolin and her salmon creation :) |
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| Roasted beet root and garlic, green beans, and lemon baked salmon on a bed of mesclun(mixed) greens. It was delicious!!!! |
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| Rosin being Rosin. |
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| Karolin opening her Christmas present. She actually knew all along but was nice enough to act surprised! :) |
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| Kärolin and Roger (sister Katlin and Rainer's first) at just over 1 month |
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Sporting my new scarf that Kärolin knitted for me for Christmas :)
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