We arrived at Orimattila at the perfect time, as my sister in law sent me a message that she is home just as we were arriving. Well I do think she had been there a bit longer as we walked in in time for catered snack. The plan was to spent the evening there and the next morning wake up and then leave to Lahti at our leisure as I knew that my sister in law would be working. What I did not know was that she was going to work from home. The evening went past quickly and the evening dinner was a late bbq. My sister in law was able to reminisce of her son's younger age (well there is only one year difference between my nephews) as my nephew was asking as many questions as the other nephew.
In the morning my nephew informed me that he did not want to go yet and that he wanted to stay longer. Luckily this was okey with my sister in law so we stayed. The morning was a slow start, with my nephew watching TV and occasionally playing with cars. After the sun really started to shine, we walked to a store leaving my sister in law to work in peace. After lunch (we went to the store to buy the ingredients) we went to a playground which we had seen while walking to the store. While there my sister in law informed me that my brother and the kids had arrived (with their granny).
We returned soonest to the house. I did not mention this to my nephew so he was surprised to see someone mowing the lawn. He said some man is mowing the lawn which I corrected that some uncle is mowing the lawn (in Finnish it was joku setä leikkaa ruohoa and I corrected it to joku eno leikkaa ruohoa). He got so interested once he realized that it was actually a relative :) We got in to meat the cousins. One of the first things my nephew did was to go sit on their granny's lap. I did have to ask him if he wanted to do so as he was leaning on the chair so much. Basically when he got the permission he was already sitting...
The end of the day went on with playground visit and other playing around. I helped around the garden a bit and then it was time for us to leave to our train. My brother and sister in law gave us a ride to the station before heading our themselves. The train took us to Riihimäki, where we had to wait over half hours for the night train to come. Luckily there was none in the compartment when we went in, so we had time to go to bed in peace. In Tampere the other lady for the top bunk came in with furious knocking and no understanding at all why the door was closed... She did not seem to understand that the conductor would have let her in. She left almost immediately. After a while I hear a small knock and I opened the door thinking she was coming back. Well it was the conductor who was just checking if she had arrived or not (as they mark everyone who comes, so they know if there are any no-shows) to which I informed him that she went to the restaurant.
The night went with a little sleep (my nephew slept a lot with only one "wake up scared" moment). In the morning we arrived to Rovaniemi and we walked to a gas station near by. The plan was to stay there and eat breakfast until my mother arrived to pick him up. Well the gas station was closed... Someone slept a bit late (she arrived about 2,5 hours after the gas station was supposed to open.) We waited there as it was not raining and it was warm enough. We had some snacks with us and drinks, so we were not hungry. Before long my mother arrived with my niece. The story continues in the next post (and hopefully it will be the end of this trip.)
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