We boarded our plane to Finland at 8am, and had a busy two days. We visited two co-working spaces on the first day - the Helsinki Think Company and Microsoft Flux, and the continental breakfast at the hotel was to DIE FOR. Our second day, we went to the Microsoft HQ, and it was the most amazing place I have ever seen. They made us special guest tags and showed us the up & coming technology that they were working on.
That night, we went to the forest, to a place called the Green Window and we ate traditional Finnish food, like reindeer and elk meat (which was not too bad). The chef's handpicked the mushrooms in the park for our soup and it was probably the best soup I've ever had. The girls walked down to the lake, and it was so beautiful, but five minutes after arriving, it started thunder storming, so we took cover in the the sauna's for an hour. The weather was so bipolar - one minute it was sunny, the next it was thunder storming, and just when I thought it was over, it started HAILING. IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER. A few minutes later, it was completely sunny again, and the rain had created a beautiful fog on the surface of the water. We switched with the boys, who headed to the lake, and the girls talked with the owner and host while eating cinnamon rolls, hearing him give some very wise advice about life and love. He suggested that we pick some plants to make our own tea. He showed us how to roll the leaves, and pointed out some plants we could eat raw - like a rhubarb leaf that tasted like lemons, and a very very very tiny wild strawberry. He showed us his favorite spot to take sunset photos, and it was so stunning, I cried on my way down.
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