to see Asha and Susanna before they returned to England.
Wednesday was a busy day for all of us. I took Asha to the Oulu Auto Museum. It was cold in the museum so we had to go around seeing the cars, buses, fire engines, trucks and other vehicles at quite a rapid pace as Asha was not wearing a jacket.
The unfortunate part of the museum is that although it has many interesting and antique pieces, it is so poorly presented. There appears to be an intent to pack the vehicles so close to each other to get more vehicles intothe museum, that the visitor really does not have an opportunity to appreciate all the details of all the vehicles.
I found it almost impossible to explain the details to a 9 year old girl by just standing in front of a vehicle as if it were just a painting.
Susanna was at that moment doing some shopping for clothes for Asha sports at a store near the Museum. We joined her and then picked up some sports clothes which are not available in regular shops in England.
We picked up Annikki and went to Michelle's Chinese Restaurant, The Royal Garden, for lunch. This is undoubtedly the best Chinese restaurant in Oulu. I was not expecting Michelle to be ther, but she was, and she stayed and chatted with Annikki, Susanna, Asha and me, right through the meal - but she runs that restaurant like clockwork.
The meal was simply superb.
After that we went shopping again, and Annikki had a regular jaunt to a couple of Flea Markets.
The evening was spent getting ingredients for Asha and Susanna to carry some food on the plane as there is lousy and expensive food aboard Blue1.
We then went to try and find some Marimekko shirts for Jaakko, but we did not find anything which he may like.
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