What a Difference a Day Makes...

This was the view from my room at the Sokos Hotel Tapiola Garden, yesterday (Saturday) morning:

This is a concert hall at Tapiola Garden.  My hotel is on one side of this big reflecting pond, then this cultural complex and a shopping mall next door.

(more photos after the jump)

On the other side of the refelecting pond is this swimming arena.  There's an olympic-sized pool inside there with bleachers around it.  When not used for competitive swimming, it's open for anyone to swim.  I asked my colleague from HDS how much the water is heated, he said "not much."  I passed on checking it out.

When I woke up this morning, the scene was a bit different:

Overnight snow!  Now the reflecting pond is frozen over completely. 

Frozen all the way across! And people were in there swimming at 8am.