Finland : Helsinki

Our flight leaves tomorrow morning early so we are spending the night at the airport hotel in Helsinki. We left this morning so that we could spend the day in the city. Liisa and Dad came with us.

We took the bus from Lahti to the airport. They let us check most of our bags, so that's one thing we won't have to do in the morning. We left our carry-on luggage at the hotel before we headed into town to do some shopping. We are still under our luggage weight limit. We walked down the Esplanadi popping in to different favorite stores (Marimekko, Aarikka) on our way to the market.

We looked at souvenirs for sale and bought peas to snack on. We ate them while listening to some young girls playing violins.

 We had coffee at the Karl Fazer Cafe, sharing different fancy desserts.

We had dinner at the same restaurant on the top floor of Stockmann's that we did last time, but it wasn't as good as I remembered.

High chair design is still great.

We went back to the hotel to try to get a little sleep before our long day.