Jäätelö

 Jäätelö (yaa-ti-lu) My attempt to sound out ice cream for English speakers

I wanted to make a blog post about ice cream in Finland . I absolutely love ice cream and am glad that the Finnish do as well.

They have a lot of yummy berry ones to choose from and have put some flavors together that I never would have thought to put together.

Lemon and licorice

pear

salmiakki (salty black licorice)

This summer while out with my kids I was people watching. The Finnish are normally very reserved with their facial expressions, but I noticed when they are eating ice cream their demeanor changes. I wanted to capture this and took my camera around to take pictures of random people enjoying their ice cream.  

I know I am not an amazing photographer and I realize now I should have taken the photo first and then asked to post it, but it was fun.

 Before I took this families photo, the sweet mom in the background of these two pictures was pushing the stroller with her elbow, holding an ice cream in one hand and a child's hand in the other.

I had to purchase the for the first time the ice cream sold at the little kiosk. Very expensive and knowing I can go around the corner and buy a box for about the same price we have never tried it, but taking all the pictures of people eating ice cream couldn't resist. 

I have yet to see a Finnish child with as messy a face as Ezra when he eats ice cream.

It was such a hot day it was melting before I handed it to him. He didn't really have a chance.

Serenity is getting better at it.

Act natural. :)

His girlfriend did not want to be in the picture

I don't think I could act natural either if someone was telling me to act natural. lol

This boy's clothes are bringing back into the 80's. Is the neon coming back into the states as well. Man I am getting old.

I was impressed by these two. Ice cream almost the same size of their heads and most of it made it into their mouths.

It was very sweet of everyone to let me take their picture. They all seemed happy to do it.

Just like the sauna, ice cream is enjoyed all year round, whether it is negative 25 or a blistering 80 degrees.