Going to Dublin.

I'm off to Dublin for a few days, work-related. // Työmatka vie Dubliniin.

They look like grandma.

These two cousins look a lot like their grandma, but I hope they will also be as hardworking, outspoken and able to laugh at themselves as she is. (Blurred the other pretty face. )

Like fish in water.

Too tired to check out if "like fish in water" is a proper English idiom, but it is the translation of the title, meaning, "in her element". This kid of mine loves to climb, hang, slide, glide...

I scrapped. // Skräppäsin.

Sometimes things just work out. I went shopping for some last minute supplies for next week's trip to Dublin, and DD had asked for some special gel pens that you can wipe off. I went to the local bookstore and got the pens and noted a group of people happily talking around a table. I thought I recognised one of the ladies and then I saw what she was holding.... a scrapbook. Mira was doing a demo and we ended up talking, very nice! Got back home, fed the kid, looked at some photos and decided to scrap. //Juoksin asioita kaupungilla ja poikkesin kirjakauppaan ostamaan likalle jotain uusia geelikyniä. Kassan taakse oli laitettu pöytä ja sieltä kuului iloista puheen sorinaa, olin tunnistavinani yhden naisista (niinkuin tunnistinkin, kaksikin) ja mitä ihmettä, Amalian Mira oli demoamassa! Mahtava homma! Kotona sitten pistin askareluvaihdetta päälle, kyllä se siitä!

We shopped. // Ostokset.

We didn't get into a shopping frenzy during our European tour, maybe because everything had to be carried in backpacks, but we did buy a coffee maker, some cute cups from Alessi factory outlet and a cheese cutter. The brown cup is a Teema-mug to show the size of the cutter, which I carried back all the way from Switzerland! // Koska kaikki mitä ostetttiin piti mahtua rinkkoihin, ei visaa juurikaan höylätty, mutta matkaan tarttui kuinkin sähkökäyttöinen mutterikeitin, kuppeja Alessin tehtaan myymälästä ja pieni juustohöylä, joka poseeraa Teema-mukin kanssa...

Back home. // Kotona taas.

Having been here, here, here, here, and here, we took two night trains and a ferry to get back to the Finnish ground. Spent one more day here and arrived home tired, but very happy. What a brilliant holiday! We took thousands of photos, which means happy scrapping! // Reissu takana, loppurutistus oli huima, kaksi yöjunaa ja päivälautta, ja vielä Särkkis! Rinkka täynnä haisevia vaatteita, muistikortit täynnä kuvia ja päässä hauskoja muistoja! Suosittelen interrailia perheille!