A Family Announcement (Part 2)


I'm going to Finland in three months. Yes, for the wedding. It was decided, then I was told.

My brother and his other half have invited a dozen more people, and they're paying for our airfares. Even though we've dropped more hints than a dog drops hairs on a newly cleaned carpet that we don't really want to go, we're all going.

It's a new experience to me, being told I have to take a holiday. I might be under orders to enjoy it too. Though it's a more familiar sensation to be berated by people who have the same thoughts but are horrified that anyone should express them.

So, expect tales of moose-based cuisine, hotel mixups, incomprehensible TV gameshows, photos of snow, touristified shops where everything's in English, and if we're very fortunate, a drunken punchup between strangers at the wake, erm, catered thing.

5 comments:

  1. Substitue road kill for moose and it sounds a lot like Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

    Shall we pray for all planes to be grounded the day of your flight?

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  2. @MJ: Should it be moose? Or Raindeer?

    Raindeers seem less Canadian, and are probably not hunted in Alaska.

    Pretty sure it's not Yak.


    @THG:

    I've a feeling god tends to interpret prayers in a way that goes fuzzy on the details.

    If you prayed to be surrounded by hunky sex-obsessed men, the next day the Chippendales would move in. They do say the devil is in the details.

    Praying for grounded planes would probably result in the apocalypse coming early.

    Even though it's late already.

    (Captcha: ovolat. Presumably Finnish for omlette.)

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  3. Well, hell. Tell him to send me a ticket and I'll go in your place. I'm even willing to be felt up by those grubby TSA agents.

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  4. "So, expect tales of moose-based cuisine, hotel mixups, incomprehensible TV gameshows, photos of snow, touristified shops where everything's in English, and if we're very fortunate, a drunken punchup between strangers at the wake, erm, catered thing"

    sounds like American Television.

    **pulls up a chair and waits**

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