Friday 13th July

Today, finally, it rained! This morning we had thunder and lightning and this afternoon after stopping for a while, the rain returned and it is still raining now, at 7.30pm. Despite that, we have been shopping in town and swimming in the lake, as well as enjoying the usual sauna- lake routine. After the heat of yesterday, the lake felt very warm today, which made swimming really pleasant!

Tomorrow, Anna's folks return to St Petersburg, so we expect their driver to be here in mid-afternoon, so that they can be away by 3pm. Knowing the way things go though, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he turns up at lunchtime!

After that, we need to get packed up ourselves, as we will be leaving early on Sunday morning, for the 4.5 hour journey to the next cottage close to Jyvaskyla. We'll be splitting the journey in two, as we'll meet Jyrki and his family at Kuvansi school, and go with them to one of the parents of his pupils, for lunch. Sounds good :-)

Dinner tonight in the cottage.