After a good night’s rest, we had a little breakfast in the cottage and Bruce took the boys in the row boat around the lake. First, here’s a picture of the little cottage.
And some boating shots.
It was a chilly but beautiful morning. I enjoyed some quiet time with my Kindle while they were out.
The plan for the day was to explore Tampere with Arto and Tarja’s son Toni as our guide. We started at Pyynikki Tower, which is touted to have the best donuts in Finland. Of course we had to try them! The quick disappearance of everyone’s donut, and Ezra’s face in this picture confirm the rumors. These are seriously good donuts.
Of course, next we climbed up the tower. Here are some shots of the views.
After coming back down from the tower, we split up the group and we walked with Toni over to an area with historic houses.
The boys played the ” coolest thing” contest while we waited for the rest of the group.
It turned out that the rest of the group had gotten a little lost, so we took a quick tour of the historic area without them. It was a very cute street — here are some of the sights.
Once we met up with everyone else, we went to the Moomin Museum, where I immediately started to take pictures and got in trouble. Oops!
This one they let me take.
After the museum we had lunch and then went to a different area of the city to meet Arto and Tarja’s other son, Tero. We had coffee and dessert and the kids took a horse and buggy ride with Arto.
We walked around the city for a while, seeing different sights. Here are some photos.
It was just starting to rain as we left Tampere. We stopped for groceries on the way home and had dinner at the cottage. We enjoyed another sauna and had a quiet night, still marveling at the view.
