It was a short winter

After 24 hours of heavy snowing the streets looked like this



It was bit of challenge to operate the pram in those conditions. However it only took another day to get rid of all that snow. So we're back in square one.

On Thursday Marko popped in for coffee before heading back to Beijing. It was good to catch up with the latest news and hear how Heidi and Marko have settled to this quite a different world after their time in Sydney. Marko seemed to enjoy the changed roles in their family giving him bit more freedom and wife making the money.

Yesterday we had our monthly going-out-together-without-Iines night thanks to Heta and Hannu who fearlessly faced as well as gloriously overcame the challenge of putting Iines to sleep. This time we went to the cinema and watched Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona... Nice film full of breathtaking sceneries and beautiful people for the taste of both sexes. Afterwards we had dinner at the russian restaurant Kasakka in Kruununhaka and of course we enjoyed delicious Russian classics, blinis together with Russki Standart.

BTW while writing this entry Iines just rolled over (from back to tummy) on her own for the first time.