OK, now for a few more pictures:  The above photo is our post office, located one block from our apartment.  And the picture below was taken at night of the "Tuomio Kirkko" (The Judgment Cathedral).  There is a lighted statue on this side of the church (somebody famous... I didn't check to see who it was) and a huge lighted Christmas tree in front, which was brought in from elsewhere for the occasion.

This picture below was taken at a Christmas art fair held in a little town square a few blocks from our apartment.  Martha thought it was cute.

These are the REAL Santa and Mrs Claus with a couple of their elves.  They were at the art show, too.

Just a block away from us (across the street from the post office) is a large beautiful park containing a few statues and some playgrounds for children.  It also contains a cute little aviary where we go to feed the ducks, geese and swans.  Inside the fence, with the birds, is this cute little "cabin" which is lit up for the holidays.  In these pictures, unfortunately you can't appreciate the lights very well.

Right behind the park is a very large sports center, containing outdoor track, outdoor swimming pool, large playing fields for soccer, a large outdoor arena for competition, and also a very large indoor exercise facility complete with indoor track, all kinds of exercise equipment, a bowling alley, pool tables, saunas, etc.  We belong to the "gym" and we used it frequently until we got too busy with the big dance we were in charge of.  We have great plans for "New Year Resolutions", however.

Below is a picture of one of the government buildings located near that cathedral I showed you earlier.  When Finland first began as a country in the 1300's, Turku was the capital of Finland.  This building is beautifully decorated for the holidays.

Just in front of the big Judgment Church someone decided to make a piece of art in the snow, using candles.  We thought it was kind of cool, so we took a picture:

When the snow gets piled up on the side of the streets, the kids take advantage of the piles and use it for sliding:

This isn't the same pile of snow, and I think I already showed it in an earlier post, but here it is again:

When we held the big country-wide dance for Independence Day, we had one of the kids draw these Finns in their national costumes, and some of the youth and I painted them.  Then many of the people who came to the dance had their pictures taken in them.  This first couple was especially "twitterpated":

These are two of our missionaries:  Elder Pope and Elder Heki.

That's all for now.  Maybe we'll send more later.