Looking at Finland

When I was in Kentucky recently, enjoying a reunion lunch with people who had travelled to Finland with me last March I bought a copy of a book one of my fellow travelers had put together.  It's a very well done album of places we saw and things we did on that trip.  The author is a really good photographer and I've spent quite a bit of time looking at the pictures, reading the captions and remembering the trip.  Actually, I might be having more fun revisiting through these pictures than I did on the actual trip.  When I think back on the trip I remember lots of hiking around on slippery, snowy trails, wearing boots that got uncomfortable by the end of the day, and being really cold sometimes.  We also had a tour guide who wasn't always very helpful or friendly.  Don't get me wrong, we had lots of good times but I'm really enjoying looking back from the comfort of my livingroom.  Even while we were on the trip, while some of our group were enthusing that it was 'their best trip ever' I kept having flashacks to warm, sunny Spain.  I guess I'm just not a winter person.