Thursday, June 21, 2012

6/21/12 day 57: Helsinki, Finland

First time in Helsinki today. Made the requisite stops at churches (one very groovy late 1960s era "rock church" that is carved into this huge stone, very groovy baby, YEAH!), the main square (more churches), and an ice bar wonderland with, get this, an ice bar, ice hotel, dog sledding track., and a sledding hill.

The reality is, this faculty is in warehouse outside the city. The ice bar is little more than a bar made of ice with a lady with a bottle of vodka pouring shots into ice shot glasses. There were a couple igloos with colored lighting and beds set up which represented the "hotel" but no one ever stayed there. The dog track was a 300 meter track around the "hotel." And I think the kids on the sledding hill were having all the fun. It was a bit of a let down. And to top it off, the ship was leaving at 2, so we didn't even have time to check out the town on our own. It looks like a nice place tho, so I am glad we will make another stop there soon.

Had lunch with some of my favorite guests before performing in the presidential suite (sick views) for a private event. After that, I rolled down to the club and played my last couple of sets of this cruise. Definitely going to miss some of the guests from this past cruise. Some really nice folks from New Zealand that supported just about every show I played, requested originals (penthouse in Denver and Barrelman were the favorites), and sang along to just about every song I played. Tomorrow they disembark and we get a whole new load of guests and then turn around and head back to Tallinn Estonia. I'm already having flashbacks of biking in the rain.

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