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A group of students and teachers from Finland took a whirlwind tour around La Conner last week. Here the group gathered on a dock ready to embark on a scenic cruise through Deception Pass. – Photo by Tammy Henriksen-McKenzie
The local tourist season isn’t quite Finn-ished yet.
La Conner played host to four teachers and 16 high school students from Finland last week, all of whom enjoyed a whirlwind four-day stop that included cruises, shopping trips, restaurant dining, pumpkin field tours, and Friday Night football.
And, by all accounts, the visit came off perfectly.
Even Puget Sound’s early October weather cooperated.
How their trip to La Conner came to pass is almost as complex as the Finnish language itself, which is more akin to Estonian and Hungarian than to the Scandinavian dialects spoken in neighboring Nord...
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