Picnic

For the past quite a few years we haven't really celebrated vappu, the Finnish May Day fest. England didn't have any festivities, and neither does Canada - but it was important for my parents, especially for my dad that we did the traditional vappu picnic today. It's not that I'm against picnics - quite the contrary - I just probably wouldn't have bothered.

With my mom we prepared a potato salad and packed rye bread, egg slices and pickled Swedish herrings for the traditional herring sandwiches, and topped it off with some strawberries and vanilla yoghurt. We toasted with some champagne before we left, and found a fantastic sunny spot under a big cedar three. Nearby there was some kind of aboriginal band playing and we enjoyed the food, the sun and the scenery, and good conversation in good company - and ok, I might have been a bit tipsy, but that happens when you give a lady some champagne!