10.13.2012

Finland…With The Skinners!!!

Preparations…for only 18 hours of celebrating, feasting, playing and catching-up {and 10 hours in traffic and boarder crossing}!!!

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I am so thankful for all the technology that makes road trips, traffic and boarder crossings a little less torturous!!!

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Celebrating with the Skinners made it all worth it!!!

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Finland is so fun, relaxing and gorgeous!!!  I am so thankful for a night in a fabulous cabin, amazing friends…that feel more like family, grass, kids playing in the street…safely, laughter, memories!!!

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A FIRST~On the way home we picked up our first ever hitchhikers!!!  A tour bus had broken down at the boarder and an older couple asked us for a ride back to Saint Peterburg.  They were first loves in school, were separated when he joined the army and reconnected 33 years later!!!  He is a Neurologist and she is a Social Worker in the biggest Psychiatric Residential Center in Russia.  They bought us chocolates and gave us money for the ride {which made me feel less bad for spending so much money at the fabulous Finnish grocery store}!!!

1 comment:

Donnie and Blythe said...

Kristie, you look so pretty in that pink sweater! Fun story about the hitchhikers...