Travelog for: Flowipowi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MOMMY!


Love,
Flowipowi

Hi mommy!

Today I visited to see the oldest building of Jyväskylä.
The building called as Taavettilan riihi, which is in English the drying barn of Taavettila.
The building has buildt somewhere in 1700's, the exact year is unknown.
First, building used as a drying barn, but somewhere in 1800's it became usual barn/cabin and it got windows then. In 1900's the building started to be a cabin museum.

Jyväskylän vanhin rakennus = the oldest building of Jyväskylä
Riihi muutettu tuvaksi 1800-luvun alussa = a drying barn has turn to be a cabin in the beginning of 1800's
Jyväskylän yliopisto = University of Jyväskylä
Rakennus 3 = Building 3





Because we didn't have a chance to go in (the door was closed), we decided to look through the window...







Love,
Flowipowi

Hello mommy!

Guess what? Something white thing has came here. It's all over outside.
It's cold, white, and it's covering everything!!!     

YES!!! It's the first snow!!! 

Winter is just around the corner... Temperature has been about -3 degrees Celcius the hole day.



Brrrrr... snow is so cold!



All others came to sit on the snow, too. Brrrrrrr...





Ooooops! What just happened?!?    Some snow fall on us!



Hih... it was only fun! 

Love,
Flowipowi

Hei! Hello mom!

Kurnau told me, that we all toys can travel with hostmom, when she will visit her parents in other side of Finland in this weekend. I was totally exited about it. It's so cool to see other placed in Finland, too.

Kurnau showed me the map. Can you see the spots A and B in the map? Yes, that's our travel plan, it's about 320 kilometres.
We are going to little village called Ilomantsi. It's in the Northern Karelia in Finland.



After sitting 4 hours in the car, I was tired and I wanted to relax.
So, I experienced one Finnish thing, how to relax and take a bath at the same time: I went to sauna!!!





And guess what? 
I met saunatonttu (=the elf of sauna) there!!!



This room, sauna, is a hot place. Saunas are very common in Finland (maybe because the cold and long winter seasons?!?). Finns go to sauna to wash themselves, but also to relax. They throw some water to the kiuas (it's like the "oven", and there are some stones on it), and this hot kiuas makes the hole room so warm place to be.





AAAaaaaahh, I'm sooooo relaxed now!!!

Love,
Flowipowi

Hi mommy!

Unfortunately, the weather is awful here... it's raining a lot... 
So, there's no sightseeing here today...

But, the bad weather is not the problem for us!  We can do many fun things inside, too. 

At first, I want to show you the coat of arms of Ilomantsi. It looks like this:


And because there's three kanteles (kantele = it's one kind of instrument) in the picture of the coat of arms, I wanted to play this instrument.

And happily I can say, that I did it. I played kantele.   
Kantele is the national instrument of Finland, and especially in Karelia.



Others played it, too.



And then, we found this marvellous little building! Wow! 



Hi hiiiiii!!!!! Here I am! 



And then, I saw something, what I first couldn't believe... 

Look yourself! Is it cool? So many medals and pokals etc!!!   

...Hih, and I'm there somewhere, too. Can you find me?



Well, can you see me now?



Great! You found me!!! Well done! 



Oh, one more photo for today...

I'm dreaming: "...and the winner is....... FLOWIPOWI!!!"
Hurray!!! 



It was fun day!

Love,
Flowipowi

Hello mommy!

It's last day of our visit in Ilomantsi, and the weather is still bad...

Well, because outside is terrible, we decided to make nice inside this house.
Yes, we are going to bake some cookies!



First need to use kaulin (= a rolling pin).





Then it's time to make cookies. I made bunny shaped cookies.



Kurnau helped. He put the cookies to the cookie sheet.



Mmmmmm... it smells so good already! 



Cookies are ready! Yummy!!! 



Now it's time to enjoy! 



Love,
Flowipowi

Hello mommy!

Today is very exiting day for me. I'm going to my next host.
But before that, I say goodbye to others...

First, to Kurnau, who has been a great host for me.



...And then, to all other toys, too.



Hostmommy's cat Jeppe came to say goodbye, too.



I'm sooooooo exited!!!! Now I'm going to meet my next host, who is living in this same town, by the way! 

Love,
Flowipowi

Hi mommy!

Now it happened!!! My new adventures can start with my new host. Great! 

In this first picture I'm still at mmm105's hand...



And then, I heard mmm105 said to me 'goodbye!' and at the same time there was a new nice human.
...I'm really exited!



Love,
Flowipowi


...TO BE CONTINUED...

New host

So, mom, here I am with my new host. I was delivered from hand to hand  I'm still in Jyväskylä, Finland!

Flowipowi

Green in white

Yesterday there was no snow, today some snow. I wanted to play in the snow, build a castle and make snow cakes with Fiete. It is very dark in November, snow makes the days a little bit lighter. I like snow!

Flowipowi

Baking

Today I was baking with Fiete. Here are some photoa of making the dough and baking the mocha squares. Before we took any pictures of the ready cakes they were already eaten, sorry 

But I can tell you they were delicious!

Flowipowi

RED NOSE DAY 

New scarf

Knitting was a bit difficult in the beginning... But Finally: I made a new scarf for me 

Flowipowi

Busy day

My host's daughter dances ballet. I helped her to sew laces to the new ballet  slippers. And I tried them on 

My host loves to do crafts. I helped her with decorating matchboxes, making about 70 Christmas cards, finishing a door wreath and packing all the candles she has done (some of them are in coffee cups!). Then we spent 5 hours at the market / flee market selling my host's crafts and used books, toys and clothes. There I met some ponys and other animals that a friend has made and was selling with us.

And this was not all... After that we went to the best toy shop in town to buy new gingerbread molds. 

I'm waiting for next day, maybe another busy day...

Flowipowi

Opening Christmas

We went to the center to see switching on the Christmas lights (but missed to see the highlight with fireworks...). We listened to the Star boys TIERNAPOJAT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_boys%27_singing_procession and gave them some coins for singing. We also saw Santa Claus is coming to town performed by dancers. We were shopping till we dropped... Luckily we finished the day by eating in a restaurant 

Flowipowi