7 days

left of schooooool. although, its over the course of two more weeks, so it still feeels far off. So estonia was really nice ! The town, Tallinn, was really gorgeous, espescially old towne which was just filled with old buildings and shops and the side of one of the castles had been caved out for little hand knitted shops, sweaters and socks galore ! Haha. Well on saturday, after staying the night at Sirpas' friend Ulla's house we left for the harbor of Helsinki and boarded the huge cruise ship :) Nuppe and I headed off after eating and spent most of the two hours on the ship playing Joker Poker slot machines ! I think we only lost like 2 euros or something...pretty good. So then we got to Tallinn and waited picked up a handicap taxi (ulla is the one in the wheelchair) and drove over to our hotel. After dropping off our bags, Nuppe and Mimmi and I were staying in our own room, wooooo !, we went over to the hairdressers and shopping center. For a bit we shopped and then we had our hair appointment because its lots cheaper in Estonia than in finland. I was really dreading going, I really hate hairdressers and prefer to cut my own hair. The lady I got didn't speak a lick of english, and not really finnish either, although Estonian is rather close to the finnish language, but I suck at finnish anyways. So it was a bit confusing telling her what I wanted. I tried to emphasize that I liked my hair and wanted to keep it long, and that I only wanted 1 centimeter off, just 1. And at first she seemed like she understood all that and I was happy because I thought she'd finally be a hairdresser who listened to me. But then as she was cutting away, two inches of hair started falling to the floor. GAH. I hate hairdressers. During the cutting she kept looking at my hair in disgust and somehow I ended up telling her that I cut my own hair, and then she replied with (in finnish) "OH, I thought you just had a really horrible hairdresser in America" uhhhh. thanks ? What am I supposed to say to that ? I dunno but it was horrible and now my hair is the same length it was when I left for finland....fjdsaklfklsdaöjlask. Stupid. really. but I guess I can't really do anything about it. Anyways so after that we spent the rest of the day shopping. Then at night the girls and I walked over to the convenience store and bought Sirpa a cake for mothers day and asked the hotel if they could keep it in their fridge, which they did. And then the next morning at breakfast we snuck out from the table and got the cake and then surprised mom with it :D It was quite fun. That day we did some more shopping and hten when to old towne and then around 5 boarded the ship to come home. All in all it was a fine trip, really beautiful city. And has given me yet another reason to cut my own hair. :) But now I ahve religion class to get to, piictures soon !