I just celebrated my first birthday.
In Finland, that is.
The 23-year milestone called for something radical, so I took to the beach in southern Helsinki and - having successfully convinced only one other person (my cousin & roommate, Maya) to join me - splashed around in the waves for a quick dip. Or, as we say in Finnish: pulahdus!
It was a high of 5 degrees Celsius today (41 F) and something like 7 degrees in the water. We took beach towels, sunglasses and tanning lotion to accessorize our bikini ensembles, but ended up getting too cold to care about those. It was windy and the weather channel's "Feel's Like" estimate was 3 degrees. So it was a quick in and quick out birthday swim, but the kite surfers in full neoprene bodysuits wanted photos with us and kept telling us "what brave girls" we are.
Overall a chilly experience but definitely worth the memories!
The 23-year milestone called for something radical, so I took to the beach in southern Helsinki and - having successfully convinced only one other person (my cousin & roommate, Maya) to join me - splashed around in the waves for a quick dip. Or, as we say in Finnish: pulahdus!
It was a high of 5 degrees Celsius today (41 F) and something like 7 degrees in the water. We took beach towels, sunglasses and tanning lotion to accessorize our bikini ensembles, but ended up getting too cold to care about those. It was windy and the weather channel's "Feel's Like" estimate was 3 degrees. So it was a quick in and quick out birthday swim, but the kite surfers in full neoprene bodysuits wanted photos with us and kept telling us "what brave girls" we are.
Overall a chilly experience but definitely worth the memories!
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