Memories - Steam train museum Hyvinka

On 11 july, the day of our anniversary, we went to this small town 60 km from Helsinki, Hyvinka it's called, where there is this wonderful and most interesting steam train museum. The museum is in the old railway station so it has been possible also to visit the old buildings fully furnished with their original furnitures.
We had a lot of fun !

This is the inside of one of the train, Look the furniture !

Can you imagine travelling in such luxury ?!

And this car ! I've never heard of anything like that. It's amazing !

PapaF under a train lol lol

The old station

Lovely cafeteria !

The ladies room !!

Then we had a pic-nic outside among the old station buildings and we even had fresh berries for dessert

Today is the last day we spend here. Tomorrow i'm leaving with the kids.

More days to spend away from papaF.

I feel empty. Tired. I struggle to keep the faith and the joy for what it has to come, whatever it is.

I'll also be off line. Not sure for how long. I'll probably check the e-mails from time to time, but i'll have to stay away from this little blog-spot of mine.

I sure will miss it here. 

Stay well, my friends :)

Shalom to you all.

May the peace and the joy be with you.

And with us. 

Tooth fairy again !

We are indeed keeping the tooth fairy busy in our household.

Leo's turn once again !!

Can you believe day after tomorrow we'll be off to Italy. I have mixed feelings about this.

I wonder what future holds for us.

Shalom

Happy Birthday PapaF

Yesterday PapaF turned 39. When I met him, he was 21. I can't believe how time is flying.

Happy Birthday my beloved

Memories - Tropicario

Instead the first day of july we visited this tropicario, quite close to our place. I was a bit disappointed since in my opinion animals were neglected and the place was dirty, but the kids enjoyed the sight of the big and strange reptiles anyways ...

Amazing isn't it ?

The skin of a snake

It is changing its skin, i've never witnessed such thing !

This one was kinda friendly

At the end of the visit Milla said she felt sorry because most of the animals were alone, with no brothers or sisters to play with. She came to the conclusion that when she is older she will adopt all of them and she will hug them goodnight to make them feel loved.

She is so precious.

Memories - SeaLife

On 22 of june we went to the Sea-Life here in Helsinki. It's always a kind of magical and mystic experience, since you really feel like diving into the ocean's water to give a close look to the wonderful underwater world.
Just some pic of our visit, to cherish the memory of it.

My favourite. I could stare at this wonder for hours

...Just beautiful ....

Memories - Steamrail adventure

On june the 19th Leo could enjoy the present he longed more for his birthday. One of his dream coming true. Being the lovely oldfashioned boy he is, he wanted so badly to have a ride in a steam train. It seemed hardly possible, instead we found out in this small ancient and lovely town few km away from Helsinki ( Porvoo ) for the month of june, every saturday and sunday the ancient steam train twice a day made a 4 hours trip ( back and forth ) to a nearby town. For the occasion we all dressed in an oldfashion way to match as much as possible with the beautiful train. We must have succeded since we've been asked permission to have pictures taken of the kids on the train. Maybe they thought we were stuck there in a time loop since the train was in use back in the time lol.

Kids dresses are ready to be weared since the night before

Here we are !

We made it hardly in time to get on board, so no pics of the train before departure.

Exploring the train

A little snack at the cafeteria on board

When we arrived in Kerava, the only stop, the Engine was detached from the train and it was connected on the other side to go back. It took a while so PapaF had the time to take some pic.

Details

So when we left we were just behind the engine, when we came back we were at the end of train. This was the view. Lovely countryside.

When we arrived back in Porvoo the kids were allowed to climb over the engine

As a young lady Gaia felt it was better not to climb :)

Oil

Old tools

You see the matching vintage aprons we are wearing ? They're lovely

A dream come true.

A blessed day.

Shalom