My Northern Home

This might be my first "not-outdoor" related story in this blog. So behold, I will now reveal to you one of my other passions. Which is, arranging fun and amazing parties to my friends. Back in the university, I actually was acting as a head party planer in our student union. And I loved it. Designing the theme, decorations, music and food. All the little details to great the atmosphere and full experience for the guests. So, as I'm unemployed at the moment, I had plenty of time to plan something fun for my friends. (Thanks for covid-19, for really giving me the time to stop and realize, that my choice of career wasn't even mine, and I had been following this path unquestionably for too long already.) As we don't have Halloween in Finland, but we have Pyhäinmiestenpäivä ( All Saints' Day ) I prepared the All Saints' Day Night Festival. I designed beautifully creepy invitation cards, where I asked people to wear something dead as their choice of costume. I ...

Ay! I can see an adventure a head of us! My dear old friends visited me last week. Or like they kindly said, "we came to see ruska and reindeers, you just happen to live here". Yes, I love you guys too. I decided to arrange us little ruska adventure. Some where they would maybe not end up by themselves as tourists. So we wondered to Rykimäkuru. Translated as the Valley for fucking. Which was topical place to go, as the rykimä season has started. (Rykimä is the mating season for the reindeers)  The colors of the forest were amazing.  The forest is full of little wonders. Frizzy old trees and oddly shaped rocks.  On a field trip to forest, with your childhood friends, the forest can come your play ground once again. Can't remember laughing this much in a long time! At Rykimäkuru hut we decided to take a brake and eat some sandwiches. And not a minute too late. As we sit in the open hut by the f...