Family business

On Friday we took our dad's convertible and took off to our cottage in Vierumäki. It's a short drive, one to one and a half hours and on a sunny weather like on Friday, it was a blink of an eye and we were there. Mom had prepared a nice dinner for us, and the only thing we had to do was to just sit down on the terrace and enjoy. Not bad, eh? :)

Our cottage

My sis by the terrace

View from the terrace

For starters we had mozzarella-tomato salad with basil, pesto and balsamic and we also had some rye bread that was from some local small bakery. As the main course, mom and her fiancé grilled beef so we had to have a glass of red wine ;)

I was so hungry that I never took picture of the main course :D

Sis <3

It got a bit cold after the sunset so we got back inside and lit candles. We had the dessert in the cottage; all kinds of cheese and biscuits. Could it get any better? Yes it can. Mom had also bought some fine chocolate.

Haha, the next morning I really felt like I need to do some sports after such treats, so I went for a jog in the forest. I've always taken exactly the same route and I thought it's supposed be 45mins in total. When I got back to the cottage after my jog, I noticed that I had only been away for 25mins!! I guess the fitness classes that me and my sis have taken in the summer have done some kind of trick here :D

So after my very short run I had breakfast and we started talking about the day's program. I really love it that on holiday I can do all those things that I keep missing during the week. Sleeping late and going for a jog in the morning - such luxury! My whole family also plays tennis and in Vierumäki there are several tennis courts that are free of charge and usually available without a booking. So we decided to go play tennis, yay :) It's been months since the last time that I played so I thought it might not go too well. But we had a good game going on and it really felt like a proper exercise!

After the games we grilled at the terrace again and got an idea that we could go visit the nearby town Heinola and have coffee there in a recently opened cafe. My mom's already been there and she really wants us to see it :) From Heinola we'll leave to cottage for now and take another destination. More family time ahead :)

From the grill on Saturday

One happy girl