After about 45 minutes ride, we ate the famous herring. People say it's too fishy, but we liked it!
Ken is trying to finish all the pickles and onions
It's hard to take pictures without other people in a photo. This one I got nobody in front of Miffy's house Soooo cute
There is another indoor garden! This one is mostly for different kinds of tulips. There are so many kinds of flowers here. 3500 kinds??? If I am not mistaking hearing the boat tour narration.
This kind is big!
I love flowers. My hobby was gardening until I started playing guitar again. I enjoyed so much, but too bad for Kenny. He likes man made stuff. Without drinking, it was not his thing lol
Well I really wanted to be in the middle of blooming tulip field. From the bus window on the way back, we saw some people were actually walking on the field. Damn it! We missed it! Walking there from the park is quite far even it looked closer because of the open space. The field was not fully covered with blooming tulips, but some parts looked nice. My battery ran out here. From here is taken by Ken's iPhone 6.
This is where I wanted to go! Taken from the bus on the way back.
Arriving at Amsterdam Central station, we went to the same restaurant, Kyoto Sushi We really like their food, the view from the window and nice cozy booth.
This strawberry tea was so delicious! Smashed strawberries and lemons in the tea and not too sweet. Finnish and Dutch do not like too much sweet. We are the same way.
I took too many pictures to choose from! We were at Keukenhof. This is one of the reason I came to Netherlands. Unfortunately it was cloudy for photos, but we have two day train tickets must be used. Hoping to see the sun later.
Not all flowers were blooming, but I was glad to see many were blooming. Wow Miffy's house! I didn't expect it to be there. My favorite character
Let's go up on the windmill to see the better view of turnip field!
They are not tulips....
Looked like there was a boat going to the field. I was more interested in the huge tulip field than the park. We bought the boat tickets! One hour to kill until the next boat, we went to the indoor garden.
We still had more time.
So we went back to Miffy's house and I bought many goods. Since only one more day in Amsterdam, I gave up going to Utrecht, where Miffy's museum is located.
Entries to windmills are not free. We paid three to go inside.
Cheese shop
Blue! Taste good!
Look at this steep stairs
Weeds look even nicer here like herbs.
This windmill is for slicing trees. Oops I have no photos! Only video recording.
Cute houses Beautiful seanaries.
Deja vu! I remember seeing this view before. Is it from a guide book or YouTube? Weird that I feel like I have been here before and taken a picture (it doesn't mean I was here earlier on the way). Very similar look in an amusement park or something.
Another thing I wanted to try in Amsterdam was this! Small pancakes! Looks like takoyaki lol
" I've been walking on the railroad all the live long day" Senro wa tszukuyo dokomademo I couldn't help not singing while taking this picture lol.
Arriving back at Amsterdam Central.
We exited to the backside of the station.
And had dinner at Kyoto Sushi. The pictures of the menu looked like a half ass Japanese food restaurant, but it was really really good! Here we have our own booth very private with awesome view! Ken likes to mimic my father.
Tempura batter was so light and crispy! This is the best tempura I have ever had! We spent $30 to eat at the best tempura restaurant in Japan, but I like this 13.50 euro tempura way better with big shrimps and the broth! Amsterdam is good at fried food. Tempura is not the exception.
After the cruise, I wanted to have dinner at the famous pancake restaurant near Ann Frank's house. We passed there on the boat. Trying to figure out where it was. On the way we found FEBO! I wanted to experience this vending machine! The croquettes were delicious! Ken loves them!
Yes houses are tilted.
My cell ran out the battery. I used Ken's iPhone from here. Not very clear pictures
We found the restaurant!!! Pancakes are so delicious! They exceeded my expectations! I want to eat them again!
Cheese, bacon, and mushrooms.
Indonesian style.
Ann Frank's house was soooo crowded with a long line! We skipped it.
LOL
Nice sunset!
Here we reached the famous Red Light district! It was kinda close to our hotel. Today's mission accomplished!
Beautiful ladies! Pictures of girls are not allowed. Everywhere was filled with tourists.
After breakfast, we rested until 3pm to go sightseeing. Earlier it was raining. Also I wanted to save our energy to stay out late to see Red Light district. Everywhere was super crowded because it was Saturday. We decided to do 1hr canal cruise operated by Lovers. I told Ken to wear a jacket because we would be on the water. Later he kept complaining being too hot and pissed me off. Because of the weather and my mood, pictures are not great in colors here.
Houses are tilting. It helps to move in furnitures from the front windows.
I look I was pissed off lol.
This is our hotel! Very old, but beautiful!
My knees were freezing on the boat. I used his jacket to cover them. After all we made his jacket worth for something.
Not being able to use wifi continuously, I have to update my blog all at once. I like writing each night because I will forget how I felt if I don't write it down. Trying to catch up here.
Going back to Amsterdam. I miss the glass igloo, but exposed to the sun continuously while resting in the daytime worn us out. Plus I worried about my skin getting more freckles. Night time was amazing. It is a private planetarium for the real sky.
We never got to use the igloo bar.
Back in the airport.
Helsinki airport.
I was so tired! Dragging a suitcase, finally arrived at our hotel. Small, but a nice room! Tall ceiling helps.
Stunning canal view! Arrived just at the sunset time
I was very sleepy. I just wanted to eat and go rest.
Ken was very happy with this American dinner we had a block away from our hotel. Traveling makes me fat always.
This activity is aurora hunting with snow tank ride.
I was least looking forward to this activity, but it was the best of three. And it was the coldest activity because snow wear wasn't provided.
I wasn't expecting to see aurora because it was so cloudy. We saw nice sunset.
Going up hill, we arrived at the cabin, which the tour guide built by himself.
Snowing. Did he say minus 20 degrees???
I thought this would be the highlight of the tour, cooking reindeer sausages. Yummy!
The tour guide is an extremely nice guy. When I said my feet were cold, he put me on the high chair and put my feet on the table closer to the fire. He put his hand in the fire and touched my knee saying transferring the heat. His hand is fine in the fire! He served us his mom's home made cookies and blueberry tea, which is very popular in Finland. However it was painfully cold! I didn't want to go to the bathroom outside! Snow is like 2 meters high! The tour stared at 7:30pm and about three hours later, the aurora finally showed up!
It didn't have a big difference from the outside of our glass igloo or from the outside of his cabin on the mountain, but the different seanaries and more openness made a difference. These shots are from the snowtank. We saw the moon together!
Well we saw moving lights again. Fast and wiggling. This time just like UFOs. I said "Ken! Look! What are they?" No pictures here. The camera didn't catch them well. Then a lady said "They are just....." and stopped. Because nobody's camera was on. That means not a reflection. I can distinguish reflections from the lights on the sky by sitting by the window for more than half an hour! Plus I had seen all the movements of stars from the glass igloo, but this time looked appearently obvious that something I have never seen before. It's funny that Ken's friend from here gave a warning for UFOs before we left for this trip.
Thank you for the great tour! This is the guide, snowtank driver and the builder of the cabin! Look how he dressed. He isn't even cold!
A Japanese tour participant took amazing pictures. His camera is so great. They even looked like color added and modified. My pictures are not modified. Ken told me he saw green, purple, and yellow in the aurora. I saw only yellow. I couldn't believe we see differently. I didn't see much colors with my naked eyes in the dark. All looked like huge smoke, so I was disappointed a little bit because they look differently from images on the postcards or the internet. Some people can see colors, but not me. Ken heard some people were arguing if it looked green, so I am not the only one. I am not color blind, but I have a bad night vision.
This is my fifth attempt to upload this blog. I am tired of failing uploads, I give up adding videos.
Waking up with a massive pain in my left shoulder and arm, I managed to do all activities we planned. Before breakfast we were looking for a bandanna to tie around my neck to hang my left arm, we saw a kitty cat. He or she just looks like our old cat, Nyanya chan.
Today's activity 1 is reindeer ride. At the changing room, I saw the funny bathroom signs. We just got a blanket each and it was warm enough.
Not like yesterday's husky ride, reindeer ride was much more calming. Ken said he could go to sleep lol. Luckily we got the front sleigh.
The reindeer pulling the another sleigh behind us sometimes walked right next to me.
Big foot, but looked soft.
Coming back to the starting point, Sami Village.
We fed reindeer.
The tour guide lady is a Sami and she showed us their culture.
Back to the room.
I brought my guitar to practice in the glass igloo because there is no tv nor wifi here, but my shoulder is hurting, I couldn't touch my guitar
I will update this later to add videos and correct my bad English. Ameba blog isn't responding sometimes.
Soooo cute
Beautiful seanaries. 
I couldn't help not singing while taking this picture lol.
