Helsinki Day 7

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On Sunday, we met with my friend Natasha and her family, had a nature walk, and visited the Technical Museum. It was a relatively long hike, mostly on a boardwalk over the salty water marshes. We stopped at a couple of observation stations, but it was difficult to see the birds without special equipment.

The waterfalls in this park are amazing!
Eatable mushrooms (“oilers.”) They usually can be found in the pine woods, and I used to forage them as a child both in Estonia and in the woods closer to Saint Petersburg
All my favorite Old World flowers
Bright and shiny caterpillar
In the museum – we could not figure out how this thing worked!

Since we were approaching the end of our stay in Finland, the girls wanted to use the rest of the day to do “something else,” which ended up being another visit to the Helsinki City Museum. I won’t mind doing it as well, since I haven’t seen more than Children’s town on our first visit, but I also wanted to do some clothing shopping for myself, and to have some on-on-one time with Boris, so I headed home. Next time, maybe!

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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