Travelog post for: Porridge

Hello mom,

I had a wonderful day! Guess what my hostmom has planned for today?
I can come with her in a postcrossing meeting. Wow, I meet new Finnish people there, and chatting with them, and offcourse write many postcards.
(Mom, keep on eye in YOUR mailbox! )

The meeting was in Harjun Paperi, the wonderful little postcard shop in this town. You can see from the following pictures, that I had really good time there! 


As you can see, there's something little to eat (pizza, Karelian pies, cookies, chocolate eggs etc.) 





Here I am, eating a Karelian Pie with egg-butter. It's something really Finnish thing. It was good!


The Wikipedia tells this about Karelian pies:
Karelian pasties or Karelian pies (South Karelian dialect of Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka; North Karelian dialect of Finnish: karjalanpiiraat, singular karjalanpiiras; Karelian: kalitt, singular kalittoa; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku) are traditional pasties from the region of Karelia. Today they are eaten throughout Finland.

The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also had wheat alongside of rye to improve the baking characteristics of the available rye breads. The common fillings of this era were barley and talkkuna. The 19th century first introduced potato and buckwheat as new fillings, and later due to trade, also rice and millet.

Nowadays in the most familiar and common recipe the pasties are made from a thin rye crust with a filling of rice. Butter, often mixed with boiled egg (egg butter or munavoi), is spread over the hot pasties before eating.


And here I am, drinking milk.



Then it's time to write some postcards





Mom look, how cute Easter things and postcards there was!!!










Can you see me, mom?




Riding a bike, hi hiiii!!!! 


Look mom! 
There's flowers in shoes!!! 


Here are we all toys. They are my friends!






Love,
Porridge
xxx