Licorice-one of the many things that sets my apart from the typical American (minimalism being another one). One of the first things I noticed and learned about Finland was its love of licorice...as well as their love to putting just about anything on rye bread. Today, we went to the mall and spent 10 Euros on every "typical Finnish" chocolate candy bar they could find for me. All of them either contained mint, Carmel or licorice. I even bought a licorice-flavored ice cream (sounds dissatisfying but to me, it was well-thought out idea!). After buying a doughnut with licorice icing, we strolled to the dried fruit and nut store and packed up on peppered cashews (my favorite) and dried mango (another favorite) and drove home to spend one last night with our knew friends. Everyone met up at Laura's house and we played a few games they taught us and we taught them Never Have I Ever and Two Truths and a Lie.
Tomorrow we leave for Stockholm on an overnight ferry! Let's hope it can break through the ice as easily in the Baltic Sea as it did while venturing to Estonia. Every other ferry but ours has cancelled their lines because of the ice, so I hope not to reinact the Titanic issue. =]
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