Snow Pegasus

[taken from my travel log, dated March 2, 2010]

Today we woke and ate a hearty, warm and delicious Finnish breakfast. That usually contains rye bread, meat, cheese, cucumbers, and rice porridge.Soon, we met up with the guys who Mike would be staying with. We had all agreed the night previous that an epic snowman should be built and thus, our day's quest began. When we arrived in a snowy park, the men hunted out the perfect location and Chelsea, Lynda and I decided we would like to create something a little more exotic, thus a snow Pegasus emerged. Three hours later, the men had finished a truly gigantic snowman, and our Pegasus lay peacfully beside it. We took photos because we were so proud of it.

We left our creations, hoping they wouldn't be snowed over the next morning, and went to Jonnis's house, where his family had made us another great feast for the afternoon. Finnish people love to feed you, and for me, I couldn't have accepted that cultural norm more gladly.