Living in Espoo: Juhannusta

Today is the midsummer celebration in Finland. They call it juhannusta(midsummer). It is a big celebration. It is the longest day of the summer. From now on it is going to slowly get darker earlier. It saddens me in a way because it feels like summer is going by way too fast!!

During the day we went to one of the beaches in Espoo.

Ezra was able to do his favorite thing. Throw rocks and play in the sand.

The water is FREEZING!! Here is proof that I was the first to get in.

Serenity came in next, but only only because she accidentally fell all the way in. She was crying, but gave a big smile after I told her how brave she was and that her and I were the only brave ones that got in the water.

So of course Steve had to show off and dive under the water after that.

Josie was up for the challenge until she realized how cold it was.

Alex was too busy reading

It was a beautiful warm day as long as you stayed out of the water. haha.

We took a short break

Than round 2 we wanted to make the most of this long day so we went the opposite way of the crowds and found a garden park in Espoo and played until the sun went down ( sort of because it doesn't really seem like the sun ever goes down here)