Like I said in the post about Tallinn and Stockholm, Emma is from Finland, so we decided to all go to Finland to hang out for about a week. In my last post, I talked about our 4th of July celebrations in Finland, and now I’m going to actually say what we did in Finland!
The day after 4th of July, Emma’s friends from high school came over and we hung out all afternoon and evening. We didn’t really do anything else that day.
The next day was our day in Helsinki. We drove into the center and saw what Emma and her best friend Tilda thought we needed to see. We didn’t go to any museums or anything super touristy. Instead, Emma and Tilda pointed out things and told us about their histories. We walked around and saw some of the cool things in the center.
Probably the most important stop was the Fazer cafe. Emma introduced me to Fazer chocolate a long time ago, and I will maintain forever that it is the best chocolate in the world. It is the only chocolate in the world made with real milk instead of milk powder, which is the secret to Finnish chocolate. Anyway, we went to the cafe. I didn’t even get chocolate! I ended up getting a cinnamon bun, which was so good, but I almost cried at how expensive it was (like everything in Finland is).
After we got back we didn’t do much else other than binge watch a show on Netflix called Sense8, which we were obsessed with the whole time we were on this trip.
The next day we recovered from staying up late and hung out, not doing much, until we got ready for dinner. Tilda’s sister works for a chain of restaurants that are really nice, so she let us use her employee discount and we all went to a really nice dinner that we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford.
