Gentleman’s Half Hose in Ringwood Pattern
Second pair of socks. YAY NEW RED SOCKS!
SoAnyway
This is the world. This is my mind. These are my words.
Romania: a short blurb.
From the air Romania is a checker board of greens and browny yellows. From the ground you can see the farmlands and fields of sunflowers. I ate a ton of fresh fruit from the markets. I feasted on freshly baked cakes and breads. I saw a ton of Gypsies, but did not manage to take any photos of them. I went on an adventure to Transilvania, in search of Vampires. Sadly, i did not see any, but Transilvania was beautiful. I sat outside of an orthodox church for an hour listening to the music/chanting and photo stalking the old people walking in. I took the train back to Bucharest where i found the temperatures too hot to walk. I spent too many hours in search of a post office on a sunday. I wrote postcards, but they will remain unmailed.
And now for a vacation…
I’m off to Romania for a week to visit a friend, possibly help build a house, and try to get gypsies to kidnap me.
Saturday July 5th
Helsinki - Bucharest
Finnair Flight # AY725 Z
Take off: 09:55
Landing: 12:30
(times local to Helsinki and Bucharest)
Due to no fault of my own..and everything to do with normal quinn flight freakishness i arrived to the airport this morning to find that i infact had no ticket reservation dispite the confirmation email i recieved and the e-ticket receipt i held in my hands. After an hour long emotional breakdown and several frantic phone calls i was reascued by Deb and escorted back to her place where i awaited several more phone calls to see if a plane ticket for tomorrow could be purchased. It has been and i should be on a flight on sunday around 17:00 due to land in Romania around 19:35. I would like to thank my many helpful and lovely minions friends. (especially ones who drive for 6 hours to pick me up from airports just for me to not show up on the right day but insist on waiting until i am due to arrive (2 days later)…thanks Joe)
ship!
Someone once told me that there are random places in Finland that have boats in the water that never move. I was told that these boats stay in one place so that in the winter tine when the water freezes over locals can point out the the boat on what seems like a solid piece of land and say ” See there… thats water”. And the tourists can stand and ooh and ahh at the boat stuck in seemingly solid ground. This year the water did not freeze, so the boat in Saunalahti just looked like a pathetic sunken wreck.
Thank you Sarah!
I moved to Finland with a pair of Dr. Martens boots, and a pair of Dr. Martens mary-jane type shoes. I love my shoes. Ever since i relaized that Dr. Martens ran big i rejoiced with the spender of finally having a reliable source of woman’s shoes. The end of winter weather rendered my boots useless leaving me with one pair of shoes. I love my shoes. However, i have been wearing the mary-jane type shoes for like nearly every day for the past 2 years. And really you should have more than one pair of shoes! By sheer luck a wonderful woman named Sarah ( whom i had only communicated with via Ravelry.. its like facebook for knitters.) was coming to Helsinki from Seattle. She was so very kind and wonderful and transported me some new Dr. Marten mary-jane type shoes, so that i now have 2 pairs of functional shoes! I had almost forgotten what it felt lke ot get a new pair of shoes. Ive been so excited about new shoes lately that ive started to randomly look at shoes online. Today i found myself gazing at the fluevog site. Just for eye candy you know. But then i discovered that they actually sell shoes my size. MY SIZE! (freakishly large) This made me almost over excited… There is nothing practical about Fluevogs… it’s bling for your feet. And i really think my freakishly large feet want some oversized bling!
