Blogs from New Mexico, United States, North America - page 93

This evening we (meaning Sean, Emi, Richie, Lauren, Dad, Uncle Mo, Mo's friend Shelly, Emil, and Pop-pop) went to an Isotopes baseball game!!! It was pouring rain when we arrived and we had a rain delay for a while so the game didnt start until REALLY late! But during the delay we got to watch the Olympics opening ceremony on the big screen TVs around! We ate hotdogs, and cotten candy, and Dip-n-dots...it was great!... read more

Drove and Drove and Drove yesterday. TEXAS is a hugh state and I thought we would never get to New Mexico. Well, we got our first ticket......$175.......In Texas you must exit the travel lane next to a stopped emergency vehicle, even if it is an unmarked Tahoe and there is an 18 wheeler in the other lane. Mike did get out of the lane , but not fast enough. After we got our ticket he pulled someone else over who passed us. Oh well I had 3 tickets budgeted into our trip....I know how Mike likes to go fast. Well, I found a campground that was PERFECT...see my photo's. ... read more

So today I decided it was time to serve the smoked fish....I even ATTEMPTED to make roses out of the pieces like Tom Iska did for Juhannus...I can honestly say....im NO professional...but it did look like a flower!!! :)... read more

So here I am back in hot, dry, brown NEW MEXICO! Im whiter then my entire family...who have been beautifully tanned in Mexico this summer, and I am quieter...what? quieter? ha. ha. NOT! So Tom iska and Hanna aiti palenius picked me up from the Ahti house this morning and drove me to helsinki. We ate my last ruisleipa sandwhich, and pulla and TRIPPI in the airport, and stuffed eight bars of Fazer sininen into my already overstuffed suitcase! After escaping and tricking the "russian" woman working at check-in, and getting through security with my rotary blazer FULL of those crazy pins, I took my last picture with my cell phone of a real stuffed reindeer in stockmanns. I rolled my carry-on over to the one empty seat near my gate and sat down next to ... read more

I just wanted to add something and kind of get used to this whole thing before I go. I am sooo excited that I sometimes think that this trip I am taking is going to be just another one of those that I take to California for a few weeks. I guess it still hasn't really sunk in yet. It has it moments too- I will feel almost overwhellmed and then I won't feel like I am going at all. Well the fact is that I am jubuliant about this whole thing and I am almost ready to go right this minute... Well, almost. I'm in my pajamas! Well I do hope that you enjoy my entries when I write them because you cared enough to read this. :)... read more