Now when the move away from South Karelia is closing it's time to do the last visits to our favourite places. Today we made a little longer trip to Lohilahti, Sulkava. It's about 90 minutes ride from Lappeenranta. We lived 14 months in Lohilahti during the years 1998-1999. It's a beautiful little village in the middle of nowhere. We had our favourite place to go for swimming and camping there called Kiikkuniemi. It didn't disappoint us. On the contrary we had so wonderful day that I'll remember it long time.
Kiikkuniemi is inside in backwoods. As a matter of fact it was little hard for us to find it at first after such a long time. Little forest road and rest of the trip you must go walking. There is a fire place and wood available over there and a marvellous sand beach. The bottom of the lake is sandy as far as you can reach the surface standing and even longer. So very good place for swimming - and we enjoy swimming! Well fool around in the water to be exact...
Water pictures taken by our daughter Jonna, she is always the first one to com out of the water while she gets cold very quickly, poor thing! She also caugth this butterfly to her camera:
Of course we made food with fire! This time we decided to have a little healthier menu than normally on bonfire (makkara/sausage). I also love to fix my gaze on fire...
Our menu: Good Finnish rye bread and spinach and carrot pan cakes. Food made on fire tastes always so good!
Viivi got excited of the blueberries in Kiikkuniemi. She wandered in the near woods for picking up them and we all got to eat them. Fresh berries are sooooooooo good!
On our way back from Kiikkuniemi we stopped for a minute or two to the downtown of Lohilahti. That's were we lived. Right by the lake Saimaa and the view was wonderful. Check yourself:
In Lohilahti there are a grocery store, bank, a little health center, gas station where you have a post office and a restaurant, school, day care, outside tennis court, flour mill, summer dancing hall, summer teather so enough services to live. I enjoyed living in there but working in the local school was a hell for me. Not because of the children but because of the other teachers.
We also visited one family we got to know while living in Lohilahti. Their daughters are good friends to ours and we enjoy the company of the parents. They had something our kids have wanted to have for a long time: A giant trampoline! 
We had a perfect day today! Pity you don't see the grin on my husband's face properly in this picture. It would give smile on your face too. Now I have evidence that he is crazy and I can keep on wearing my t-shirt saying: MY NEXT HUSBAND WILL BE NORMAL!
3 comments:
Your porkannapanakaku (sp?) looks better than mine. Care t share the recipe?
Little Montreal Girl
(in Canada)
You always have the best pictures! Tell Jonna her pictures are good too. Family camping is the best and leaves you all with great memories.
Montreal girl,
I have to dissappoint you. I always buy those pan cakes from the grocery store. The spinach pan cakes we have all most all the time in the fridge in case of a need for a little heavier snack.
Mari,
I'm so amazed how good pictures Jonna takes. She's had the camera only for two months. (I got a new one for my birthday in the beginning of June and Jonna got the old one). I think she has talent but she also likes taking a lot of pictures.
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