1 Elsa and Tuomas playing in the backyard during Christmas break
2 It was too cold for making snowballs - they would fall apart when thrown
3 Antti and Elsa inspecting the old snow man, which has turned into solid ice
4 On a walk along the shore close to our home, looking at small cabins on the opposite shore from Kulosaari
5 A marina in Herttoniemi. Note all the boats lifted from water and covererd with all sorts of tarps.
6 Two small islands north of Kulosaari
7 The Wihuri building on Kulosaari
8 The Kulosaari Kasino, a restaurant founded in 1915
9 View south from the island
10 The Kulosaari cemetary
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12 Going for a walk on the ice with Tuomas and Antti. It was a bit cold (-21 degrees) that morning.
13 Antti sledding down a hill to the ice (that's covering the sea)
14 Tuomas creating a new path for his sled in the fresh snow
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16 The Helsinki Cathedral on the evening of Epiphany (January 6th), at the start of a light show that involved the church as well as several other buildings around it.
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18 Cars leaving the Senate Square after the light show is over
19 On the west end of Esplanadi, with the Havis Amanda fountain in the foreground
20 Various government buildings west of the Esplanadi. The bluish building in the center is the Helsinki City Hall.
21 View from Tähtitorninmäki ("Observatory Hill") where Antti, Tuomas and Mikko went sledding on a very nice Saturday afternoon (sunny and about -15 degrees)
22 Antti and Tuomas climbing up the hill, with downtown Helsinki in the background
23 The old observatory (built in 1834) from which the hill has gotten its name
24 Tuomas and Antti climbing up the hill once again
25 Tuomas watching an airplane circling in the sky
26 Tuomas going down the hill
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28 Antti skating at the Mustikkamaa skating area one evening
29 Antti taking a break from skating and playing in the snow
30 Elsa wishing she had skates
31 Antti and Tom the moose, who came for a visit from Antti's pre-school.
32 Elsa, Antti and Tom
33 Elsa with Tom
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35 Elsa, Antti and Tuomas looking at new Legos on lego.com
36 Small ski jump at Narinkkatori in downtown Helsinki
37 Somebody getting ready to slide down and jump...
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41 Chinese New Year's celebration event in Helsinki
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44 It was sunny and clear for a change
45 Elsa playing in the snow. We took a sled with us but she refused to sit in it, and insted pulled it herself most of the time.
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50 Tuomas and Antti at the Tampere Police Museum (went there twice when visiting mummi at the end of February)
51 Tuomas and Antti driving a police car
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53 Antti at an island close to our home. We walked there over the frozen sea and played in the snow for quite some time.
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55 Tuomas and Antti climbing up a hill on the island; then they would slide down and repeat everything.
