Flying in the moonlight

After a beautiful moonlight flight from Helsinki to Turku were the moon was reflecting in the lakes and the sea all the way we landed at Turky Vantaa= Turku Airport. After a quick snapshot of the cool little plane (with propellors!)it was of to the luggage belt. i love how they serve very good chocolate on every Finnish flight also on the domestic flights the are handing out the divine chocolate from Fazer. If you ever go to Finland that is the one to try for sure (the big blue bar of milk chocolate). Definitely an airline that totally understand their customer! Perhaps Fazer chocolate icecream is next?

Turku airport is very smal, so they only have two luggage belts. It is always exciting to see if your luggage has arrived because it happened quite often that it was still in Helsinki or even Amsterdam. Today i am lucky and with all my stuff i go outside to investigate the way to get myself to my grandmother's house. There should be a cheap airport taxi, there are even 2 taxi's unfortunately they drive off fully packed..Nice I was kinda hoping for another one but it is rather late, 01:00am. I wait a little longer but it remains very still, other travellers are taking normal taxi's and slowly the airport starts to look deserted. This is really not the place to stay for the night. After some hesitation i phone the number on the airport taxi sign, hoping to order one.. That is clearly a mistake, i was expecting some kind of taxi station but it apparently is the drivers personal number. A very sleepy man is answering the phone...Ai.. well not even trying my clumsy Finnish i resort to grown up English and ask politely if it would be possible to go from Turku Airport to town. He understands what i am saying but tells me he isn't coming anymore as he has to get up early tomorrow...oke.. i apoligize for waking him up, and really wish the sign makers would put that information on the taxi signs, like no more taxi's after midnight or so.

Just when i am thinking of jumping into a normal taxi, a bus appears from out of nowhere. i can't believe it, surely that bus would go somewhere near to civilisation? Thank God 10 minuts later we are on our way, almost all busses stop at the market place and this one is no exception, from there it is a piece of cake to find a taxi.

It was a great night, not dark at all and with people still chilling out with a drink in town. The taxi driver was talkative once i started chatting to him. I have to practise my Finnish every time i can.Wow and then there was this gigantic hare sitting in the middle of the road, curiously looking around. Not long after we reached my grandmothers flat, i must have woken up the whole building when i dragged my bag up. Mama was already there and we tried to get inside as quitely as possible. Strangely enough Mommo as you call you grandmother in Finland, did not wake up.
That would be a good suprise to suddenly find to family members in her living room in the morning! It has almost become a tradition to suprise her. She was so unusual quiet that we went to check up on her if all was well. You know normally she snores (like we probabely all do) loud enough that you know she is sound asleep. Finally we saw her chest move and heard her make a sound..pfffffffffffff. For a moment i was worried. Relieved we drank some tea. Ofcourse snoring isn't good for you either. And then it was finally time to go asleep!