Sahajärvi, Espoo, Finland - 21st October 2013
By: Eohippus
Hyvää huomenta, rakas äiti! (Good morning, dear mother!)
Mitä kuuluu? (How are you?)
I was reading Auras updates and heard that you´ve had there a
landslide and a typhoon! Gee!
We are here very happy nothing bad happened to you!
We went yesterday for a walk here in the surroundings, and then happened
something very fun, and I´m now going to tell you about it!
In the morning the earth was lightly white!
It had been snowing a bit during the night.
When the sun rise the snow melted away, but in the Northern
Finland there is already half meter of snow.
We walked along a narrow, peaceful
road.
The day was turning to be sunny and the birds were singing
cheerfully on the pine tops when we walked past.
We were watching the birds, and the sky looked so blue we wanted to climb the treetops ourselves too.
See how high up we were!
A crow saw us sitting on the tree branches and stopped to talk
with us.
"Gee! Wow! How come there is two frogs, a sheep, a kiwi bird and a teddybear high up in the tree?" she asked.
"We´re toyvoyagers!" we answered, "we can be where ever!"
Then we came down again, and the forest
surrounding the small road was so beautiful, that I sat, leaning
on a tree trunk, just enjoying the view and the sun and the smells
of the forest - the decaying leaves and the earth itself.
We reached the small Salaoja stream, which run
to the lake Sahajärvi.
The name of the stream comes of a small species of fish, called salakka (bleak), living in it.
We were playing on the little stream, hopping
from stone to stone, screaming and giggling.
And then we were making bridges of
tree branches and balancing ourselves over them.
We left the stream and walked along the shore of the lake.
We saw many rowing boats on the bank, and a desire to get
rowing on the lake conquered our fluffy hearts!
But alas! The boats were all so very big!
We tried, but there was no way to move
such a big boat!
What frustration!
But then..! Look, mom, what we found!
We could hardly believe our eyes!
A toyvoyager -size rowing boat waiting for us!
Must be a very smart, civilized and enlightened person who
has left it there!
We pushed the boat in great hurry onto the
water!
When the boat started to float we all rushed in at the same time, eager to get on board, and ended up into a great pile on the bottom of the boat..
The cargo was too big and too unbalanced!
The boat lurched and one voyager flew to the water!
"Voyager overboard! Voyager overboard!" we shouted in panic,
but the I realised it was Tuli, and as a frog she just swam
easily back onto the shore, phew!
But the accident made us realise we should
be more carefull and take turns!
So we went on boating three at a time, and it went well!
First I had some troubles with the oars,
and the others were teasing me."Is this a carusell or why are we moving in circles?"
There was fishes who came to stare us.
"Hey, guys, come and see! Frogs in a boat!"
"Yeah, fishes!" we answered, "Why don´t you do something
surprising some time? "
The weather was very calm, and there was
no waves at all - it felt like we were gliding on the surface of
a mirror.
After rowing around the lake my arms
started to feel a bit tired. I think my muscles are bigger than
they were!
We sat still for sometime watching the beautiful
lake view, and then we left back home.
We came home in a great mood.
I would love to take you rowing some time!
Kisses from Matcha!
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Posted Oct 21, 2013, 9:12 am Last edited Oct 21, 2013, 8:15 pm by Eohippus
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