I emerged from my cave of sick today.I had an interview at 2 with a woman from the department of English, she is doing a research project on living and studying in Finland when you don't speak Finnish. I know how hard it is to find people to interview, so I figured I would go. It was actually kind of fun talking with her, and I'm glad I went.
After the interview, I was bound and determined to take pictures. I hadn't taken any pictures of the pretty part of the city, but that is now rectified, and by the time you read this they will all be up in convenient album form on Facebook. I wandered by the Helsinki City Museum, which I had been by before. It is free admission, and I didn't have anywhere else to be so I went in. It was a lot bigger than I expected, and really quite interesting. Definitely worth the money, I would have even donated a few euro if there had been a box. I spent an hour in there, it was 2 1/2 floors worth of stuff. There is a used book shop next to it, but I wanted to take pictures and I knew if I went in there that would be another hour gone. I am going to go in one day.
I took pictures down by the harbor, and went in the only tacky giftshop in the city. One room of Russian stuff, one of Finland.
On the steps of the Cathedral someone had trudged "I <3 ANNA" in the snow, it was really sweet. It must have taken forever and I hope she appreciated it. In my mind it was some sort of elaborate marriage proposal.
After picture taking I came back home, stopping by Lidl for random groceries. I think there is some sort of something special in Kamppi today, because there were banners and balloons. The girls giving them out wouldn't give me one though, which made me sad.
On tomorrows agenda is buying pants, doing laundry, and going to the Posti to mail Bryan's letter and buy stamps for future use.

Some random thoughts:
This city is really well equipped for blind people. All the crosswalks in the centre beep slowly when you can't cross, and then when you can it speeds up. Also, in Kamppi, there are metal dots on the ground that lead from the train terminal to all the different bus stops. I hadn't thought about it, but I saw a blind mad today run his cane along them to find where to go. Thats so smart.