Our last p-day with the Gee's today. They leave a week from Saturday, August 8th to go home to Bountiful, Utah. Next p-day they will be packing, cleaning, etc. So we took advantage of the time we could spend with them to go to a castle about an hour north of Espoo......called Hameenlinna Castle. It was a fun trip. It was a castle that Veli Gee had seen as they have driven up the highway but never stopped to check it out.

As I recall it was built by the Swedes. Seems like most things of earlier years were either built by the Swedes or the Russians. Finland only gained their independence in 1917. They are a young little country!

We quite enjoyed walking around. Our tour guide spent about 45 minutes talking to us about the castle......and he had a fairly good command of the English language. That was nice.

This is a round turret. Kind of neat. Very deep drop off there!

We have enjoyed many such trips with the Gee's over the past 6 - 7 weeks that we have been here.

LaRue and I are standing on a 'balcony' of the inner court on the 2nd floor.