Last day in Florida. The master plan was to get Wilmer tired first, feed him, and load him in the car so that he would sleep the most of the way of the 5 hour drive to Hilton Head Island, in South Carolina. Pool anyone? You do not have to ask our "water beast" twice, he is game. Good 2 hours went by quickly, mainly in the form of he jumping, me catching. Our newly found Finnish friends were at the pool as well. They were returning to Lapland the next day. (If anybody happens to visit Uppeli at Rovaniemi, make sure you say Teijo and his family hi for us.) Quick lunch and a diaper change and we were ready for the road. We thanked and said goodbyes to 2/3 of the Ropers. What a nice family and house. All the best for you.- - - - - - -
One of the longest stretches of this trip so far, a 5 hour drive across the northern Florida to Jacksonville and up to South Carolina via Georgia was ahead. To all you statisticians, Jacksonville is one of the largest cities in the whole US based on the land area that it occupies. The drive was quick but boring (only 2 turns), if you do not count the fun we had when passing about 10 cows and an occasional old fart that did not seem to know where the gas pedal is in their Cadillacs or Crown Victorias. One place on I-95 just north of Jacksonville brought back some memories of when we were almost stranded with Valtteri and Raisa at the parking lot of an outlet s
hopping mall on one fateful Christmas Eve. That day we were returning from Key West and the radiator in our good ole' Mazda decided to spray its contents on the faces of two brave souls who had managed to pull the car over and open the hood to figure out why the engine was overheating. Well, we eventually made it home from that trip and this time also to Hilton Head without another radiator incident.- - - - - - -
On a side note, one thing that has bothered me lately is the Hyvinkaan Tahko in the Finnish Baseball league where Valtteri from the above mentioned Key West duo plays. (You Americans who I have tried to unsuccessfully explain the differences between the Finnish and American baseball, be sure to click that blue link for more details.) Tahko won the Finnish National Championship in 2007 and then started a trip down the rankings. Now, the new season on the way, they started 0-5 before finally winning their first game. Come on, what's up with that?
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