Last Days in Korsnas

Pic 1-Bo, Lena's husband, making some yummy waffles for a late supper.
Pic 2-Ralf showing us one of his baby silver foxes.
Pic 3-Boat building in Korsnas.

Our time in Korsnas has come to end but with no less busyness than the rest of the trip. On Saturday, we all went to visit my grandmother's sister, Maj-Len, and to give her one of the birdhouses the kids built at the museum last Sunday. Her husband is a boat builder and we got to see his shop with some boats in progress. Then, my Aunt Viktoria took us out to a very nice waterside restaurant in a nearby village called Molpe for a Midsummer Day's lunch. On Sunday, we were back to Susanne and Harry's in Edsvik for a lunch with her two older sons, Robert and Ronald, and their girlfriends. We had cucumber soup! which was fitting since they are the ones who grow the cucumbers. Then we went to return the car which had loaned to us to Åsa and visited again with her family including Anna, Ralf, Tildy, and Johnny. Ralf took the boys and me to see his mink farm and he also raises silver fox for the fur business. Later we went to Lena's villa for a late dinner of Svenska pleta, waffles, and pankakor. Yummy! Monday we began to pack to leave Korsnas and the kids rode their bikes to the villa. Later Mom and I joined them with a pot of chili for supper and left over pankakor. Yummy! Tuesday we finished packing and had a nice afternoon at Caroline Åbacka's home in Harrstrom, another village not too far from Korsnas. (I'll tell more in the next entry about Harrstrom.) Lena made the kids a dinner of their choice for their last night at the villa--Finnish spaghetti with brown sauce topped with ketchup. They love it!

On Wednesday, we left Korsnas about 10:30 a.m. going to Vasa to catch the train to southern Finland to two of my grandmother's nephews, Lars Erik and Johann, in an area called Ekanas. We have too much luggage and it was difficult moving it all to the next train when we had to change. We arrived in Helsinki about 5 p.m. and drove to Ekanas about 75 kilometers away. I'll fill you in on our time here as we go along, but it is less than a week before we return to the USA. It is hard to believe that 5 weeks which seemed so long in May has been as quick as it has been.