It's all Maija's fault

[wednesday_whimsy]

The Long Version

Arriving safely in Tampere on Wednesday night, my life decided to turn into a James Bond film. We got to the hotel at about 10.30 and the door was locked. Maija rang to ask if someone could come and let us in. The woman said it would be 10 euros (to be let into a hotel I'd already booked). While she was on her way down, someone came back to the hotel and we followed him in. We then had to locate the piano and find the key that was hidden under it (I jest not) and hide from the owner on the stairwell so she didn't charge me money.

On Thursday we went up the observation tower, (Tampere's tallest building), which provided a glorious view of the town and the lakes and we could see right up to Nokia, (which made me feel a little guilty of the Samsung in my bag ;) ).

We went to the Lenin museum and had a nice discussion about communism and why it's the nicest theory going but people suck too much for it to work.

Then we went back to Maija's apartment and she tied me up and gagged me and forced me to watch Supernatural. And now I'm reading fic and have bought the dvds and it's all her fault! In fact when she went to audition some people for her choir she sat me in the room next door with nothing but Jared/Jensen slash to read for two hours. That's hardly playing fair.

That night we went to see a Beatles cover band and we had a nice time devising stories about Billy playing the Cavern and Dom going to watch (it must be written, it must!), singing along loudly to every song and discussing life the universe and everything. (You know you're having a surreal conversation when one of you starts talking about how hot Huey, Dewey and Louie are going to be when they grow up, Maija). We were very, very drunk that night.

On Friday we walked up to the other observation tower and then along the shore of the lake until we reached the crazy golf course. It's been years since I played but I wasn't too bad. Maija got a couple of holes in one, wench.

Maija took me out that night so we could celebrate my birthday and we went to a Viking restaurant which was very nice, even though it took two hours to get our food.

At the weekend Maija was sick. I think she's allergic to me. Two days with me and she gets all ill. It happened when she came here in May too. We spent two days watching every episode of Supernatural and all three Lord of the Rings films, eating junk food and giggling quite a bit.

I'm not going to mention my journey home because I'd rather just forget about it. *g* Suffice to say I was awake for 29 hours and felt like crap.



The Short Version

1. Reading volume two of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is like watching the all slash network. I love that book.

2. Crazy golf is the funnest thing ever.

3. Jensen Ackles is teh sex.

4. It is impossible to watch 12 hours of Lord of the Rings without bringing up every cute thing Dom and Billy said in the cast commentary.

5. Maija is allergic to me, which sucks.

In either version I had a fabulous time and my hunnybunny is cute and fun and far too good to me. ♥