Second weekend in Finland

The tire monkey

The building across from the tire monkey

The barn that can be seen from our apartment

One of the trails that we walked on today

The barn from the parking lot at our apartment

The Prisma my new Wal-Mart

Today we went back to the City Centre to get our travel cards. These are basically bus passes for our stay in Finland. We were both able to get cards; mine however, is only worth 20euros and will not last the duration of our stay. I will have to go back and get another card once I get my student ID. We also bought a router and a large thing of laundry detergent since they were cheaper in the mall near our old apartment. After that we took the bus back to the new apartment and went to the Prisma.
At the Prisma we bought a printer, two small dish towels, a hot pad and some more groceries to stock our apartment with. We also explored the area more today and saw a farm area and plant nursery. We walked down through a residential area with beautiful houses that have one side mostly made of glass. We also walked on part of the campus that I will be taking classes this spring. I did not get any pictures of campus today but I will soon and will post them when I have them. I also did not get pictures of the houses because I felt like that was rude, so you will have to take my word on how pretty they were.
On part of campus near the grocery store we saw a monkey statue that is made entirely of tires. The statue is probably twenty feet tall and about ten feet around. I am not sure why it was made or who made it because the sign was in Finnish and I do not trust Google translate well enough to try to translate it.
We hope to do some more exploring tomorrow, our legs have not adjusted to all of the walking or we would have done more today. I will take the camera and post more pictures from our walk tomorrow.