Finland is small.

Seriously small.

Arizona is more populated than the nation of Finland.

But, really, that’s what I love about this country.

Its small size makes it a) really fun to root for in the Olympics, because each medalist is revered, b) easy to use its national language as code when traveling abroad, c) highly likely you’ll run into celebrities at your local cafe, d) possible to get invited to fun parties at embassies.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been to an embassy party in America.  Those seem reserved for the creme de la creme of society.  But here in Finland, we normal folk can just wander on down and throw a barn dance at any given moment.

Okay, not quite.  But the party held at the British Embassy yesterday afternoon was the eighth event held at an embassy that I’ve attended.

It was a summer fete held by the British Women’s Association and it was idyllic as it sounds.

I took a whole lot of photos, and I love them all.  Unfortunately, they’re of children.  And I don’t know their parents names let alone how to find them to ask permission to use them in my blog.  I’m sorry for you, because they’re really cute.  Wheelbarrow races and everything.

BUT.

I can show you some photos of the bake sale!

Unfortunately, we got there hours after it had begun (thwarted by naptimes once again), so the bounty wasn’t quite as plentiful as when it began, but really, it was all lovely.

Oh!  And I can also show you a photo of one little boy whose mother wouldn’t mind AT ALL if you admired him on this blog.

If he isn’t the sweetest baseball player ever to walk this green Earth, I don’t know who is.

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