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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
last night
Greetings from Finland! We actually had a great flight on Finnair from Nice to Finland. The airplane was much nicer than American. This is the final leg of our amazing journey. We are in Finland due to a 22 hour layover. Our hotel is fabulous. It is the Kamp hotel and the rooms are like private rooms in an old mansion. We arrived at 4 and rested a bit and then walked the town. You can walk everywhere and it does not get dark until 11:00pm. We had this great dinner at a Japanese restaurant. They had this hot stone and you put tofu on it to cook. I had the teriyaki salmon. Tomorrow after breakfast we will head to the market by the sea and then we need to leave by noon to get to the airport for our final journey home
Everybody thought that this was one of their best vacations. No matter what country or city we were in we always toasted Lars with our wine glasses ( we drank a lot of wine ). He presence was felt by us on this trip. We all thought of how much he would have loved to physically be with us and we know how much Larry loved to travel. It is because of him that we were able to do this vacation. He wanted to make sure that his family would be able to live in the lifestyle that they were accustomed to. Larry was talked about constantly and our friends on the cruise felt like they knew him and joined in on our toasts to Larry. I think about the horrible summer of 2012 and how much we have all overcome since then. I am beyond proud of the kids and know that their successes are due to what Larry and I instilled in them as they were growing up. I also know that Larry was such an amazing person that we all want to constantly strive to be better human beings because of him. We miss him terribly but continue to live and love. I am grateful that we got to experience this vacation. I hope we all will maintain the wonderful friendships we made on the ship and can continue to travel with friends and family.
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Everybody thought that this was one of their best vacations. No matter what country or city we were in we always toasted Lars with our wine glasses ( we drank a lot of wine ). He presence was felt by us on this trip. We all thought of how much he would have loved to physically be with us and we know how much Larry loved to travel. It is because of him that we were able to do this vacation. He wanted to make sure that his family would be able to live in the lifestyle that they were accustomed to. Larry was talked about constantly and our friends on the cruise felt like they knew him and joined in on our toasts to Larry. I think about the horrible summer of 2012 and how much we have all overcome since then. I am beyond proud of the kids and know that their successes are due to what Larry and I instilled in them as they were growing up. I also know that Larry was such an amazing person that we all want to constantly strive to be better human beings because of him. We miss him terribly but continue to live and love. I am grateful that we got to experience this vacation. I hope we all will maintain the wonderful friendships we made on the ship and can continue to travel with friends and family.
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Location:helsinki Finland
Monday, August 4, 2014
Nice day
We had a lovely day today. After breakfast we spent the morning and part of the afternoon at the beach. The beaches in the South of France are made up of big smooth rocks. You should wear water shoes to get to the water. The private beach for our hotel has lounge chairs, towels and umbrellas and they have this mat that covers the rocks so it is easier to walk on-the beaches are not Hawaiian beaches but the water is an amazing Azure blue. I even went swimming! Afterwards we walked to the old town of Nice and enjoyed a salad for lunch and shopped for all kinds of things- yes that is right.....more French pastries. Good thing I have worked out everyday on this trip. Hope I did not do too much damage to the waist line! We did buy croissants and fruit for our breakfast tomorrow. We need to leave at 9 for our flight to Helsinki. It will be the final leg of our journey. We have an overnight there before we head back to Chicago. Overall this has been an amazing vacation. Everybody had such a good time. I hope you have enjoyed the blog. It was difficult and sometimes frustrating to write since I had to type on my phone and have trouble seeing so excuse any poor grammar as I did not proofread. I discovered that I can post pictures one at a time as separate blog entries ( very annoying ) so I will try and put some pictures from today up. I will write next from Helsinki. Nance
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Location:Nice France
Sunday, August 3, 2014
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