A big three person b'day party...and more!

Me and my dad...and look closely at my feet...notice anything strange...nah me neither they're just two normal feet with five toes each...

"My, Jussi what strange eyes you have"..."All the better to freak the hell out of you with..." be afraid...
Host brother and his strange hands...
Oay this is just back from norway...and I felt like wearing a bowl on my head and pointing at a random invisible object...
Norwegian host family
Norwegian host family...It was brilliant there!

Heh heh...my host brother heikki wearing my custom-made "minnie mouse" headset...however it was orgininally intented to be a bikini...
Me outside my finnish school...good fun there

The snow-capped mountains of norway...+ sun
Um yes...no caption really necessary

Me with a charming jelly thing...as my host brother always says: Yummy!! (note I'm not wearing a hat
Oh I love this shot...from the top of a massive norwegian mountain (note I'm wearing a hat...I unfortunately lost it on the trip down...) Me and Martin...ohh dearie dear...
My dad and Martin sorenson...wooow the view was enchanting

My dad and Martin Sorenson on a nice walk in the snow...

And we have more fungi
Me in a lot of comfort after it started to POOUUUUUR with rain...
That would happen to be me and my Norwegian host Martin Sorenson...after it had started to pouuuurrrrr with rain...
A beautiful norway inlet...I think that's the word...meh...it'll do
Hmm...Not much to be said here...

And the good old salibandy, or floorball...soooo much fun!
My dad in Karjala...
An enchanting view of Karjala...I'm in almost the same place as one of my previous pictures...I wonder if you can find it...
Okay this, for the benefit of non-finnish speakers is a T-shirt saying "Real (or full) beer" in a traditional finnish landscape
Me in the act of stea...*ahem* "borrowing" a finnish signpost...

One of a serious of artistic shots I took when my dad was in finland...of fungi
And another
My dad, in the act of paddling...well steering our canoe on the way back from the russian border in Karjala
Me...with as natural a smile as I ever did have
Aaaand more fungi

A nice picture of swans on the way to the dry dock for our summer cottage boat
Jeez the lakes are beautiful
My father in Karjala....I was there too...

Me and a good friend of mine Leino...evidently complementary pictures of the both of us.

This is at a rather exciting party...and two of the girls dressed up as cats and danced a dance to the tune of "pink panther" ohhhh dear...it was hilarious :D:D

A group of party animals about to play a very strange relay game involving balloons...which became even more interesting when the act of spinning on the spot before running was introduced...
Some of my best finnish friends, from the left: Jussi (host brother) Janika Ruuth, And Miika Pelkonen...if you search for "ineski" on youtube you should see quite a few of his videos, he's a brilliant magician...also http://www.miikapelkonen.com/
MMM That was a nice cake! "Kakku" in finnish...not to be confused with "Kakka" which looks slightly more brown and less tasty...

And that concludes today's ceremony :D

hope it was enjoyable...I have many photos still on my camera...should be exciting when I download them...oh and DAD DO YOU HAVE MY 2 GB STORAGE CARD? I can't see it anywhere

anyway

cheers

Dave