Wonderful day

First let’s start with a report from the weekend, snow!  Some, not much but snow.

Backyard 


Walk to the front door

So, that’s the snow storm, all gone now. Big news today was our letter from the Minister of Defense. We have permission to buy the house we bought a month ago and are living in. LOL  This is a good thing.

Next news, both cars have now gotten the OK from customs and we are going to pick them up tomorrow.  We will take the train to Helsinki, about a three hour ride.  Sophie’s first train ride. Larry’s car came through with the rest of our things while mine came all on its lonesome. For whatever reason customs had to see a copy/photo of our insurance in the US to prove that I’d owned the car for at least six months (less than 6 months would have resulted in customs duty). They already had the bill of sale, title and registration.  We figure somebody didn’t get any over the weekend.

This hurdle has the cars here and inspection scheduled for Thursday morning.  A good day when we retire the Fiat Punta 4 speed that has only 3 speeds working.  Looking forward to automatic transmission and cruise control! And my hippy seat covers.

Helsinki pictures coming soon.

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  1. deni moonMarch 4, 2020 at 3:54 AM

    It's fascinating to read about the process of assimilation

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