Pori and Part of Ruisrock

This giant basket was pretty fantastic.


Pretty awesome sculpture on the Pori riverbank.

Okay so I realize I'm drastically behind on these but man... not a lot of time lately! At any rate, Pori. After Rovaniemi, I caught a couple trains to Pori, where I met up with Laura and her other grandparents. There really isn't a lot to say about Pori - we shopped, hit the town a little, had dinner at her uncle's restaurant and later with her aunt and uncle at their house... Only pictures I really have to offer you kids are of the gorgeous mausoleum we visited while there, as Laura's great-grandparents are buried there.

Story of the mausoleum is a sad one but rather pretty. We couldn't take pictures inside, so I can't show you anything of that, but story goes that this little girl died of tuberculosis and her father had this mausoleum commissioned for her with gorgeous paintings by famous Finnish artists and her coffin encased in a daisy-shaped sarcophagous sort of sculpture because daisies were her favourite flower. Place burnt slightly in a great fire shortly after the death of at least one of the artists, the mausoleum was restored to near-original shape with the help of that artist's son who was also a painter.
It's such a beautiful building...
After that, we caught a train to Turku and Ruisrock, which was 3 glorious days worth of bands and fun. Altogether we saw more than 15 bands...
Day 1: Deathstars, Children of Bodom, Disturbed, Slipknot
Day 2: In Flames, Egotrippi, Eppu Normaali, Ladytron, Maija Vilkkumaa, Scandinavian Music Group
Day 3: Volbeat, Amorphis, Apulanta, Stratovarius, and part of The Crash's final concert.

I'll upload pictures of the concerts later, and add Helsinki into the mix!

Tavataan taas!