More, in case anyone's interested, following on from the last part. If I seem at all bored writing this, it's because I already wrote it out once but my damn computer crashed and so this is the second time now.
[edit] It also means I've probably forgotten some stuff. [/edit]
We didn't go to a bar that next day. I can't really remember much of what we did do... which means we probably just hung around for most of the day, relaxing (I was, at least) and listening to music and stuff.
In the evening Santtu's sister and husband took us to a glass-blowing factory place, but most of it was shut by that time. We did go in the factory shop though, and I bought a couple of presents and Santtu nearly smashed some expensive glass things. The checkout girl was really clumsy, but I don't think Santtu noticed properly otherwise we'd have both burst out laughing.
As it was, I managed to control myself. I was disappointed though, it was a great chance for some public retardedness. :/ That night was the first night of my sleeping problems, but at least Limppu came into my room a couple of times and lay next to me. She's so cute. ^_^
The next day we went back to the glass place during the day with Santtu's parents and her aunt and uncle from Sweden. I was bought some Willi Mies ("Wild Man", apparently) honey, and I bought Santtu a very appropriate chocolate pig. We also stole some glass from a museum.
After that we went to more shops in Santtu's town, where I fainted, cracked my head open, and had to be taken to a health centre for stitches.
I felt a tad silly about that, which, along with the pain, led to me not sleeping much again.
The day after that was more lazing around, playing Uno, listening to music... might sound boring to some, but I was enjoying every minute of it, and even though I kept on thinking I was boring Santtu she kept saying she wasn't.
I sorted out my Tuska trip as well, then was forced into playing croquet with Santtu's mum and sister while Santtu went in the sauna. I won.
In the evening everyone watched the English version of The Lion King, and Santtu did girly things with her hair. Non-sleep this time was due to Provinssi-related stress, and also sadness at leaving Santtu's home because it's so damn nice there, and her pets rule.
Next day was Provinssi, and I think this had pretty much been covered elsewhere. The bands I saw/heard were great, meeting Lumitalvi, Ulla, and Spike was great, speaking with other non-UM Finns was also good, but by the time the evening/night came I was in a foul mood because of all the lack of sleep and stuff, so I was horribly antisocial all night. I also nearly froze to death, since I just lay outside on a bedroll all night (I did get 15 minutes of dozing in) while everyone else went into their tents to sleep. I was supposed to have done that too, but I sort of didn't get around to sorting it out and by the time I did realise I should do it, everyone else had gone already.
Oops. Overall it was still definitely worth going though.
The next day was probably the worst, even though it still wasn't too bad... my bad mood and tiredness were still around, and I kept getting the wrong end of the stick and misunderstanding people, which led to Santtu rightly getting pissed off at me for being a tit.
We had to wait 2 hours for a train to Helsinki, which was then absolutely packed and boiling and I wound up standing in between the smoking room, a toilet, a baggage rack, and a door which I had to keep open to stop from overheating for the first two hours of the journey. Not fun.
A lot of people got off at Tampere (about halfway, I think), and I got a seat then and managed to doze a bit until Helsinki. Then there was a little confusion finding our hostel, but we did get there in the end, and went to sleep pretty early. This time I slept!!
More later.
