Gingerbread on Independence Day

We have some traditions. One is related to the (Finnish) Independence Day. This time we started the morning by waking up early to watch the Gala from the Presidential Palace in Helsinki. We saw it live, but streamed over the internet instead of watching on TV (in the evening, as they did in Finland).
So, usually the days starts with Sirpa making enormous amounts of gingerbread, but this time that happened later. The "glögg" that we found was ok, but the molasse Sirpa used instead of sugar syrup (which could not be found anywhere), made this Beta version look quite interesting.
Well, this version was made the night before (good thinking), so Sirpa was ready for a new try when Robin arrived. First we all needed a good brunch, including Finnish rice porridge with cinnamon.
And then the ladies started working...
... and soon we had lots of ginger bread. The American version as shown here...
as well as the Finnish-American version, as shown here. And about 300 of them. And good!
And we all rewarded ourselves by going for dinner to Orson´s in the evening. Oh, and Robin brough beautiful flowers. Thank you!