Bug in Finland: Lahti...cold, wet but it has good movie popcorn!!

Two postings in one day!! Living on the wild side today!! I went to Lahti yesterday with Ruchel and another Canadian girl from Quebec City named Idit. It was a very wet and cold day...it snowed, then rained, then hailed, and then snowed again. I honestly think that the weather here is more confused than the weather in Calgary!!

Lahti is a small town south of Tampere in between here and Helsinki. It doesn't really have anything special about it...at least not that we could see. It seemed like a regular town. Apparently there is a musical water fountain that also has a light show. It plays until the end of November at 7PM but we didn't make it. We were too cold and wet!! However, we did find the fountain and some very cool rocks. I have included pictures of the rocks...the faces were interesting yet slightly creepy. Not sure if we were allowed to walk through them but we did because no one was around to stop us. After this, we went looking for the poster and art museum. Unfortunately, we picked the wrong day to visit. Yesterday was Father's Day in Finland and this resulted in most things being closed. We found the museum and then sat in the lobby to eat our brown-bag lunches and we warmed up enough to go back outside. Upon exiting the lobby we came across the theatre and I suggested watching a movie because it would be warm. Two minutes outside convinced us that it was a good idea and off we went. After figuring out how the showtimes work, we bought our tickets and selected our seats. Yup, you have assigned seating at the movie theatre...you get to choose on a screen...it's pretty cool!! We ended up watching "Sicko" by Micheal Moore. It was interesting but it slightly exaggerated some aspects of the Canadian healthcare system. There were about 7 Finns in the theatre and us three...we laughed throughout the film, especially when Micheal Moore visited Canada. I think we must have annoyed the Finns. After the movie we attempted to walk around Lahti some more but we ended up walking around the same block twice. At this point we decided that the right decision would be to find the railway station and head back to Tampere. Nothing like a cold, wet day in Lahti!!

Here are some pictures of my Lahti adventure.