28.9.05
Lapland 2005
Now we are back. I have to admit that before going my expectations were not so high (actually kind of low). But i was wrong. It was great. We went there by train (and i have to say that if you ever go there, take the beds... it marks the difference between heaven and hell). In Rovaniemi we rented 2 cars from friday to sunday (180 € in total) and we stayed at Charly's place where we surprised him with a big (and heavy) suitcase filled with food, plates, forks, knives, spoons, nail-clipper, glasses... and alcohol (something like the 'mercaditos' which we used to make in school for Calabazo). On that day we went to the Santa Claus village. It was nice and we saw THE MAN HIMSELF (we spoke about Montoya and about his trips around the world with Rudolph..). We also went to a nice lake to chill. That night was good, some 10 or 20 friends of his came and we ended up in this disco called Tivoli. Then we went out (like at 4.00) and between Magrofuoco and me we took without permission (stoled) a couch that was laying on the street in front of a second hand shop (2 days later, by request of Charly, we returned the 5€ couch which had a stain under one of the cushions (wonder what it was...) ). On that day we went to bed like at 7 in the morning.
On Saturday the italians were crazy about going farther north... so we (the colombians) let them go alone. We stayed and it was a great idea because we went to the ZOO!!!!!. Polar bear, reindeers, owls, ravens.. nice... And on the road we saw a reindeer and a moose which are the finnish version of donkeys and cows when it comes to road animals. On that night we also partied with charly's friends, and we went back to Tivoli. We went back to bed like at 4 or 5.
On the next day the italians arrived like at midday. We just layed down the whole day and we went to see the race (F1, Montoya won the race but Alonso became champion... the youngest champion in the history of F1). We left on the night train at 21.10 (this time with beds), we watched a movie on Beto´s laptop and ate meatballs with mashed potatoes. We woke up at 5.45 in Tampere.