Unexpected Turn While Hooping

I made a little video of what happened just the other day. I've been busy with getting us all the way down from Boston, Massachusetts, to North Carolina. I have to go to a US Citizenship & Immigration Services office in Charlotte for giving them my fingerprints (yet again) and for taking a picture of my face (yet again), for extending my greencard for 10 years. Yeah it looks like I'm not going anywhere :)

Ok friends, enjoy the video - it was a lovely hoopy day! The song is "What You Mean" by Wookiefoot.

Surrealistic Fiesta in Helsinki

I went here last night and met some Finnish friends I haven't seen in ages! Susanna had an art installation here in a room full of her paintings and art. This work was my favorite:

This DJ played the most eccentric collection of music I've ever heard in my life. They didn't call it a surrealistic party for nothing :)

Here Susanna takes her painting skill on a gentleman with a tail.

She painted me too, with an earthy feel:

Nitai and Olli, our sweet hitchhikers from Turku.

The place was decorated beautifully. 

We went upstairs and chilled out on the couches, played guitar, drummed on papercups, and sang the Hare Krishna mantra, Bob Marley, hilarious blues with improvised lyrics, grunge-kirtan and whatnot. Downstairs they had a meditative performance going on.

Today is my last day in Finland. And it's been delightful so far! We had a rocking hoop jam with Marianne, Jenni and Kaisu earlier and now it's evening and I'm sitting by the fireplace and singing with Kaisu and Mani. We recorded some of it, I'll put it up here later. It sounds pretty fairyish let me tell you :)

Marianne Sunshine

I was hanging out yesterday with Marianne. This girl is a total sunshine, now look at her:

Recently we had a hoop jam in Helsinki for the World Hoop Day and recorded a video of us all doing "the official" WHD choreography. You can check it out here. I think it was Marianne's idea to bring the beautiful yellow leaves to our hooping spot. I don't know who took the above photo but the following ones from the park were taken by Noora or some other hooper there, I forget. Credit where the credit is due :)

And here's the whole crew:

This is how it's done yeah!

I made her a new hoop and she gave me these pink and colorful dreads that she made herself. Aren't they cute?!?

Ok everybody, have a great weekend! I have some exciting plans for tonight, will tell you guys later what happened :)

PS. Marianne has a blog at www.mariannesisko.blogspot.com, but it's in Finnish so you non-fairy-Finnish-speakers can check out the photos :D