Helsinki Summer Memories 4

If there is something I would like to take from Finland with me to Spain is these cool indoor playparks. I have never seen in Barcelona anything like these we have here. I was already  when living in Malaga thinking a lot about setting up similar there for all Scandinavian kids. But I guess its also the weather factor.. the summer is so long in Spain, and winter weather nice and ok too,  maybe these would go out of business..
dont know.. but we like them!
This is the newest one in Helsinki, has been open only couple months.
I think its supercool!

12 bucks entrance on a bad weather day is not bad, but other stuff they sell there.. food, coffee, sodas, candies.. soooooo expensive. ufff.. a real rip off.

                They even have a disco room and a cinema with 3D movies showing non stop..

            Finnish candies.. are just the best! In Spain they just have bad candies.. why is that???

And another thing I would LOOOOOVE to take with me from this mid siberian country..
is of course FRIENDS!

We had a lovely day at a swimming pool place.. but one thing that disappointed me is the amount of NO - DO NOT- YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED signs that Finland is full of.. at the pool there was all kinds of sings everywhere saying no no no no.. And taking fotos was very strictly banned. They kept saying it on loudspeakers in every 30 minutes.. I do understand there is bad people in this world who likes to take fotos of kids and use them badly.. ( and learned this is actually the reason, they had caught a man who had been taking fotos of kids ) and its such a pity that because of these people we cannot take memories of our own kids. Like for instance boys were jumping from 7.5m to the pool and we could have got really cool memories for them... But No. You never know.. this might have been the last beautiful sunny swimming day of the summer 2013 in Finland.

However, I did take couple before they came to tell me I have to stop.. bad criminal me.
These are all our kids and agreed to be ok to publish these..

 These two has 2 weeks apart in their age and have been like brother and sister for years.

                                          Dude just can´t go anywhere without a ball..

Princess was the only one who can´t swim yet properly.. and she was bummed! Maybe gets her a bit of energy for the next swimming school .. last one she took the teacher said " she would have learned more if she did not fool around so much "

                   Even the little man got to wear his swimming suit for the first time ever!

                       Even though everything is forbidden..   Nice swimming day we had!

               as well as a sunny warm pretty evening with friends friends and more friends!

Im getting worried these kids nowdays are just staring at a screen.. BOOKS! what happened to real books.. they all seem to be too busy to read them nowadays! not acceptable for my children. Books are the basics of everything and should never be forgotten.

            luckily girls still know how to draw and paint and play old fashion doll games
                                                ( älä häiritse - do not disturb )

                                                   the little man just eats ..

I made some treasure hunting maps for crisp bags at the yard.. and all I heard.. "these maps are wrongly done.." - but at the end.. we did find them all .. come on kids.. kept you busy for almost an hour - away from the screens! :)

                                              The more the merrier! Always!
 

                    I will miss you loads chica! Life is never the same without you nearby!