the blue hour

I have had "sininen hetki" on my mind lately. The blue hour as it's called in English, when the sun gets below the horizon far enough so the light becomes blue until slowly it sets completely and all turns dark and night falls. That peaceful calm moment in the evening.  I have been fortunate to enjoy a lot of sunsets here with a nice view of the horizon but that's not the reason "sininen hetki" has been on my mind. There's a Finnish company named Fazer making delicious chocolate and their classic milk chocolate is rapped in blue. They  advertise it using the blue hour as their slogan, at least they used to when I lived there. It's the world's best chocolate and I do miss it. I have been attracted to all things blue lately so the slogan has come to my head because of that. 

 I don't know if it's because I had a baby boy that my world turned blue or because I'm looking for peace and calm or a little bit of both. But our new home has a lot of blue in it.

We can't drink water from the tap here, so we buy it by the barrel and then poor it in this ceramic water dispenser.

These handmade glasses with the blue stripe has always been my eye candy.

We have now all the basic furniture so we can function in our apartment and we finally have cable properly installed as well. Internet for me and TV for my husband and son. They love their basketball and I love to be left alone.  I was so desperate to read a book that I bought a used Kindle on FB's Marketplace. This was after I went to the bookstore downtown Queretaro and asked for their English book section. They told me that they have 2 books in English. One was about English grammar and the other one "Smilla's  sense of snow". I know it's a nice book but I had just escaped winter in Montreal so snow wasn't an alternative in my head. We didn't have internet at the time, so I couldn't  google different tablets or facts about Kindle. I made a hasty decision and took an UBER and got the device. I then went to a cafe with wi-fi to register my account and download something to read. I quickly learned that I only had access to books on amazon. Mierda! My idea of reading books on Nextory and update myself on literature from my home country backed fired. But I'm not unhappy with my Kindle, in fact I'm very happy with it. I got to read about the Mayan Civilization and now I'm reading one after the next of Leena Lehtolainen, a Finnish crime writer who has been translated into English and can be found on amazon. To me, reading Finnish books in English is a bit like watching Hollywood movies in Spanish but then again it's better than not reading at all. The Kindle device is actually really nice to read with. Much lighter and easier to hold and has a backlight so you can turn off the light but still keep on reading. Really handy, especially if you like reading in bed before falling asleep. So my blue hour nowadays is when my baby is sleeping and I can pick up my Kindle and read.