60th birthday party

I couldn't sleep much last night because I was a bit nervous about how our bikini photo shoot was going to end up looking like in the paper. My dad brought me the paper early so I could check it out. Then I took my sister to work and headed to the gym to do my new workout routine for the first time.

It felt like the whole day was just about the paper and the photo shoot, I'm making a post about that later. In the evening we had a 60th birthday party of a very long-term business associate my dad, my mum and I attended. It was much better than I expected. The atmosphere was superb, describing very much how the couple is like, the food was amazing and time just flew by.

The man of the hour

The chef

The specialty; cabbage sausage

Friday evening run in the Finnish summer

Once again it is weekend. After work on Friday we headed to our lake house. I told my brother I was going for a little run so he joined me. It's quite a challenge to run with him even if he hasn't done it much but since he's almost 2 meters long his steps are bigger so he can easily escape if you wanna call it that. The weather for running was mild and the nature calm, no cars the only thing was the bugging mosquitos, apparently they're still alive and breathing.

We ran about 6km and afterwards enjoyed some well earned sauna and swimming. The water was a whopping +25C so even my dad was brave enough to join us. He used to be fearless when he was younger but now it takes forever to get him to the lake. And what else to end the day with that real Finnish strawberries.

Yummy

The doggy took a swim too

Visiting Fazer

Today was the hottest day of the summer, the highest official temperature measured today was around +31C degrees. I wanted to visit my old job place at Fazer in Helsinki so I drove there to say hi and brought some delicious strawberries with me. My friend Jenny from school also works there and Krista who was there last summer together with me as well. We talked about this and that and the time just flew by. Then it was time to return home. Since it was so warm we headed to the lakehouse for the evening with my brother and mother. The water was +23C so you can imagine how nice it was.

Oliver likes hiding under the seat

A nice cold ice cream on a hot day

Out in the woods

I love running out in the woods, it's much better for the feet and it's nice and quiet. Usually I always have music whatever I do; gym, running and well the classes have music incorporated to the workout. Anyways, I was running a bit ahead while my mum was walking Oliver. Even if it was late it was almost +25C degrees outside.

Healthy breakfast

I started the new week with a good decent breakfast. A lot of times I just grab something in a hurry from the fridge. Now that I got my program to the gym from the PT I think I really have to think more about getting a good amount of protein. Good sources of protein are milk, cottage cheese and quark. Since I don't drink milk I enjoy buttermilk, it's a bit thicker than regular milk. I'm also not a coffee person at all but I've tried it a couple of times now that it's possible to get just one cup with the machine.


So my breakfast consisted of quark with peaches and strawberries, rye bread with an egg, a couple of cherry tomatoes, a cup of coffee and some water. What do you guys enjoy for breakfast?

Visiting grandpa

I haven't had a chance to see my grandpa properly since coming back from Nice, so my brother, my mum and I decided to stop by and say hello. We had some ice cream and talked loads about this and that. My grandfather has always been very precise about the garden and flowers so he showed us around how the yard looks like now.