Met my best friend on imgur 3 years ago, just flew to Finland to meet him. 

Me and @TheodoreWitchFucker met three years ago on here. I had to pull an all nighter so I started chatting with random imgurians to keep me company (something I still do today), from there we became a really annoying big sister, and a dweeby little brother duo.

The first thing I ate there was a traditional dish nick named "Fish Rooster," it's little fish baked into rye bread. Finnish people take their rye bread VERY seriously haha.

Every ladies toilet has one of these butt cleaning sinks in them. They had them in Denmark as well, so maybe it's all European countries, and I just had no idea?

Finland is GORGEOUS. All the Finns I met seem to down play how beautiful it is, but I was totally in love.

Uncle Sam found me, even in a super tiny town in Finland (Kotka).

All of the parks I visited were "living" parks, where different community groups (mostly school kids, and the elderly), knit clothes for the trees. It made everything super colorful and i'm sure really fun for the kids.

It's also totally cool to drink outside, and at these public parks. Just don't speak to strangers. Ever. I got reprimanded for saying 'Hello' to a sweet old lady.... apparently I caused her a lot of stress.

Rye bread, boiled eggs, and pickled herring is the Finnish hang over cure. It tasted.... interesting.... but I never got a hang over no matter how many long drinks I had, so hey *shrug*

Took a ferry over the Baltic and went to the Suomenlinna fortress.

There are a ton of tiny little islands across Finland and you can rent/own summer cottages on them. Super cute!

I survived shrimp and tuna fish on a pizza. Apparently these are both totally normal ingredients across the pond.

Finnish architecture is amazing! I didn't want to make the album too long, so I only put the most impressive looking buildings in, but I took about a thousand pictures of just random adorable looking buildings. It's seriously a sight to see.

I convinced them to be dweebs for a few seconds. All other Finns looked on in extreme disapproval.

Largest church in Finland.

Moose cream cheese! Tasted like little bacon bits :)

The Sibelius monument. Apparently this famous Finnish composer, Sibelius, would go on week long drinking binges while coming up with his music. As he was Finnish, I am not surprised in the least by this haha. Finns also take their extremely over priced alcohol very seriously.

Reindeer sandwich! I had reindeer a few different ways while I was over there, and honestly, i'm a big fan! It didn't have a gamey taste at all (not even the lunch meat), and had a steak like taste. Sorry Rudolph, but if I see you, it's going down.

So even though Finns avoid eye contact, and speaking to... pretty much anyone, if their hockey team wins the world championship, they get drunk, strip naked and go jumping in the fountains. When I asked my friends dad about the insanity of this, he replied with, "Well you still don't have to speak to anyone while you're jumping around naked."
Sound logic.

I survived the sauna. This might be the biggest, most sacred thing in Finland. EVERYONE goes to the sauna. As an American, I died of heat stroke 13 times the first time I went in. My friend and his parents revived me though, and actually, whacking yourself with the birch tree branches helped a lot, it was very relaxing. After the sauna, sitting outside in the cool air and drinking a long drink, I FINALLY understood why sauna is so huge, and even though I knew I would die in the heat, I went right back in the damn sauna and did it again.

Best salmon i've ever had, even better than what I ate in Alaska (though that might just be a discrepancy between the two dishes that I had, and not a fight over quality).
If anyone wants to know more, or has any questions about Finland, drop a comment or send me a pm, I love to chat!