Scandinavia 2013

Waiting for our flight gives me time to start blogging about our trip to Scandinavia.
Jim says; "That's our bird out there."
I look out the large corner windows of Gate A 14 Delta at Logan Airport and see a nice sized plane getting food and fuel for our departure.

This day finally arrived. I've been waiting over 40 years to visit my friend in Finland. When we were seniors at The Winsor School she joined our class for one year. Instantly we became friends. She's been back here over a dozen times since our graduation in 1970. Now that our tickets are bought, our itinerary planned, and we are on our way, I can not say what took me so long to take her up on her invitation to visit her in Turku, Finland.

We are flying to Amsterdam, then on to Stockholm for a few days before we take a ferry to Turku.

I like seeing my airplane from the window.

Erin's birthday

HAPPY Birthday JIM!

Jim & Lea lecture at Sawyer Free Library Lyceum

My friend, Lise, joins us in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. I am so happy to see my high school classmate. This year we turn a certain age. Most of the 45 girls who graduated from Winsor in 1970  are meeting in Vermont to celebrate. That was tempting. We are happy that people are gathering.

However, Lise and I are invited - along with our husbands - to sail for two weeks from Louisburg, NS across the Cabot Strait to the island of  St. Pierre and then along the coast of south Newfoundland. 

Lise and I often dreamed about sailing together aboard "Windigo", a 58 ft Boothbay Challenger. We each have sailed with our friend, the captain, and owner, Sandy, at different times. This invitation seemed too good to pass up, so we chose to celebrate entering a new decade this way!

Jim & I welcome Lise to Baddeck! Here we sit in our house skyping our classmate/foreign student, Leena, who lives in Finland. Jim joins us as we dream about a trip to Finland - maybe next summer!

Shadows of heart rocks

Enjoy shadows of heart rocks on Killick's beach....

Can U CANOE?

Jim builds these 'skin on frame' canoes at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum workshop.

Baddeck Bay seems to be the perfect place for them.  Jim snaps this one of me with the Amoeba in the background.

 As Jim paddles by me he says; "This is the most fun I've had yet in Baddeck."