Every day is a Valentine's Day

when you live with the one you love (According to T)! So our plans for V-day didn't exactly go as planned but we had fun regardless. More about that later.

On Friday I headed to the city to see Saara. It was the big day, the day my salmiakki storage was filled once again! And boy, did she do good! I have all kinds of salmiakki, T got her chocolate and Vanilla kossu so we are now good until we can go to Finland ourselves and get some more of that good stuff. But anyway...

I took the bus with T to the city, walked the 16 blocks to Saara's hotel and got there around 9:15am. We decided to leave the candy etc. to her hotel since we weren't sure how much walking we'd be doing and frankly it was a big ass bag so it was best that way. First we went to eat breakfast in a diner and yapped away. It has been awhile since we last saw each other so we had a quite a lot catching up to do. After breakfast Saara wanted to do a little shopping and other than the Mac computer she wanted to buy, we were able to find it all. When we were done shopping, we went to have dunking donuts (breakfast had included few cups of coffee). After that we met up with T for lunch near her office and I was glad to find out T and Saara got a long great! After lunch we decided to go have a drink in an Irish bar, at this point Saara had gotten texts from the other members of her Finnish delegation that they were bar hopping so we decided to do the same. I just couldn't find the bar I was looking for so we went to drop of Saara's shopping bags to her hotel (stopped by at Starbucks on the way), I used a lifeline and called a friend about the bar address, I took my salmiakki and booze bag with me and we went to O'Lunney's. 5 of Saara's friends met us there and T joined us after work. We had a great time, drinking cider and telling stories...Valtteri especially was full of great stories! One end of the table was all about poop stories while the other end was concentrating on academic stuff. Guess which end we were at?!? We decided that since it would be St. Patrick's day while we will be in Finland, we will stay in Tampere for that night, crash on Saara's couch and meet up with Salla and Valtteri as well. O'Connell's and Soho, watch out!

We really had a great time and it was awesome speaking Finnish again. Commenting in Finnish on facebook and speaking to my mom once a week isn't exactly enough of Finnish. I notice I forget words and sometimes how the grammar goes.

Like I said, we had plans for Valentine's day that did not materialize. T was supposed to have a brunch with her mom (while I stayed home being lazy and watching TV), come home after that and we would have made dinner and rent movies but then her sisters called and wanted to see us so the whole plan flew out the window. Instead we went to her moms, she made seafood linguine (one of my fave dishes that she makes), Carly came over to hang out with us and then we went to her dads, had dinner with them, watched Madagascar 2 with her sisters, played Rock Band and I played with their pet bunny who is 16 pounds/ 8kg (bigger than Sox!!!). We got home around 9:30 and watched an episode of Desperate Housewives we hadn't seen yet. It was a fun day and since we might be somewhere far away next year, we thought it would be a good idea to see everybody. And like I said, every day is a Valentine's day when you live with T! I don't need a calendar mark for that!

On Sunday we just chilled, only thing we did outside the house was go to Farmer's market to get the veggies and fruit for this week. Other than that we just basically read. I finished the 3rd book of the twilight series and T was towards the end of the 4th one. I think she should be done by now since she had the day off today and less than 100 pages left. I will have my nose in that book soon enough!

I didn't have a day off today so I'm at work right now. I have been doing some job searching, nothing serious just yet but just to see what's out there. I'm also thinking about attending my graduation ceremonies...I'll need to talk to T about that.

Have a great week everyone!
Later

P.S. Good luck Saara for tomorrow!