Saturday, April 18, 2009

Easter - Pääsiäinen

Firstly, I must apologize for being silent for a while! I would have had many quick things to post but no time for it. Like my favourite = only active follower has said, it is sad that normal life and particularly working life disturbs updating blog...

Eli pahoittelut hiljaisuudesta, minulla olisi ollut matkan varrella monta pikaista sanaa sanottavana mutta muun muassa kiireinen työlista on hidastanut kirjoittamista... Henkilöille jotka eivät englannin kielistä kuvausta ymmärrä tai eivät edes googlen translaten kautta saa mitään irti, suosittelen Palaute-osiota tai numeron tietäville puhelinsoittoa sylttytehtaalle - kerron mielelläni mistä on kyse. Terveisiä Varvaralle :o)

Our Easter was fairly hectic, I needed to work on Good Friday and we flew to Finland on Sat in the middle of Easter. We still had the family traditions with hiding the eggs, eating lots of them, and relaxing. On top, one extremely important tradition came through: My mother made the traditional "pasha", the creamy sweet thing with Russian history (?), and I must say it was EXCELLENT with pullapitko (slices of sweet loaf of cinneman roll dow).


Yesterday we also had a bit different dinner. We went to Russian restaurant and had buffet containing all sorts of delicious specialties, e.g caviar served with blinis...

Different idea: check came in "maatuska" with local Geisha-chocolates. Price was decent.
In Finnish, Easter is "Pääsiäinen" - assuming you have a pc which shows the a´s with the dots. Otherwise it´s "Paeaesiaeinen". Easy, hah! For more language info, click the pic below (please let me know via comments if you can´t open it!).
Dear Ladies,
I know you have been hunting for THE shower cap. We found it! I tried to bribe the model to show face for the pic, but apparently it would have initiated too much fan mail...

However, I found a great piece of art. The pic does not make justice to the quality of this piece of art, but just have a look at the golden frames you can partly see - and particularly the fantastic art in the frames!

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