hello from Finland!

hi everyone

here we go again-- a new keyboard and very little time. so far this has been wonderful. we stayed at the summer home of a rotarian. they had a beautiful, scandinavian style house, with sauna on a lake. our hostess , who is my age, jumped into the lake after the sauna and of course i decided - if not now, when- and followed her. it was shocking and fabulous. my team members had to follow us to save face. we laughed and warmed up and went into the lake again and again. saunas are great. it has been very dreary, rainy, and today bright and cold. everyone is so nice- really gracious to us. it has been fun. tomorrow we give our program for the first time- a little in finnish, many pictures of mpls and hopefully an entertaining program. we are picking up more finnish. the town we are in is tiny, but has many civic activites and parks for the citizens. this morning we visited the biggest recycling center in finland. ok. off to the next visit- an old cinema.
i love you.
mom-nonna-mary