Back in Finland

We’ve been back in Finland for four days now, and the daily grind has already started — fortunately a bit more relaxed than usual, as a lot of people are still on holidays.

The rest of our journey was more or less eventless, as I predicted in the previous post. We bathed in pools and on sunshine, relaxing as completely as one can with two small children.

We booked a semi-submarine trip to see the corals with the whole family. That was $140 well spent. The trip took an hour and we saw a lot of coral, fishes and three sea turtles — favourite of Aapo’s. Other than that, we stayed in the resort and the beach.

All good things come to an end; we had to check out at eleven on Sunday morning, and spent the rest of the day lounging in the outdoor areas. Aapo fell into bushes from a beachside hut, and got a fair amount of scratches on his back. Nothing major, fortunately. A lot of crying and a visit to resort’s nurse that covered the wounds with some purple antibiotics cream. The cream stained a couple of shirts pretty well. The whole back looked quite scary, but now everything is again fine and dandy.

The trip back to Finland was also quite easy. Boys slept most of the longer flight. I managed to sleep only twice, total two hours. Maybe I was too relaxed to sleep in the airplane or something. I was irritated and sleepy for the rest of the trip, but managed to drive family back home.

I’ve had a few prebooked happenings early in the mornings this week, and I’m still feeling a bit jetlagged. Boys are too, they have woken up every night between 22 and 1, and have been really eager to climb out of the bed and play. Things are moving to a good direction and hopefully our body clocks catch us soon.

Next week, Sanna and the boys are going to up north. I’ll follow them later that week.