1 km
Tonight I swam 1 km for the first time in many years. You can bet I feel it in my body, and im guessing it will be even worse tomorrow....A man was swimming with one big frogfoot and he left big waves and I swallowed some water and I had a bit of a blackout and had to swim to the side and recover for a bit. It was a bit scary and I dont know why it happened. Maybe cause I was breathing heavily and my brain was lacking oxygen from the start so when I stopped breathing I just blacked out for a bit?
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Foggy
Even though I understand that the swedes are finding it a bit depressing that autumn is here I think its rather cosy to wake up to fog so thick I can just about see outside the window and feeling slightly cold getting out of bed and actually wanting to put on a pair of socks.
When I went to the library yesterday they didnt have the next book in a series Im reading but when I searched the computersystem they had it in at the small local library in the village where I went to school. The library is actually IN my old school nowadays and it was really strange to walk into the school again. What memories....
I also picked up J´s new shoes. A pink pair of canvas shoes I have been eyeing for a while. They were slightly big (as I expected) but better big than small, at least she can grow into them :) Since they were pink they got thumbs up from J too :D On the way back to the car I happened to see someone I went to school with from age 6 to 15 walking with a pushchair and I didnt even know he had a child! Anyways, I did slow down a bit to avoid talking to him. Some other school friends told me he is a bit strange and since he removed me from his Facebook I didnt feel like chatting to him, would only feel strange.
Now we will see what the day has to offer, mum is off. Maybe we will make some more apple mash?
When I went to the library yesterday they didnt have the next book in a series Im reading but when I searched the computersystem they had it in at the small local library in the village where I went to school. The library is actually IN my old school nowadays and it was really strange to walk into the school again. What memories....
I also picked up J´s new shoes. A pink pair of canvas shoes I have been eyeing for a while. They were slightly big (as I expected) but better big than small, at least she can grow into them :) Since they were pink they got thumbs up from J too :D On the way back to the car I happened to see someone I went to school with from age 6 to 15 walking with a pushchair and I didnt even know he had a child! Anyways, I did slow down a bit to avoid talking to him. Some other school friends told me he is a bit strange and since he removed me from his Facebook I didnt feel like chatting to him, would only feel strange.
Now we will see what the day has to offer, mum is off. Maybe we will make some more apple mash?
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Sunday
Sunday offered even more rain but we managed to go to the cemetary where we put some sunflowers on my grandpa´s grave. (For anyone who doesnt know, sunflowers are "my" flowers, I love them and had them in my bouquet for our wedding) Another two of my aunts came to visit for a late lunch,"aunt 3" joined later and we had a lovely afternoon together.
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Saturday
Another one of the kid´s wishes were to fish for crabs but on the way to the sea the skies opened and we had to turn back home again.Instead we went to Torp, a shopping mall, but I didnt buy anything. Better I guess, there is lots of shopping to do in Dubai :) After lunch we went to one of my 3 aunts to see her family and the new kitchen. Its always very nice to visit them, they adoooore kids and it gives me a chance to relax a bit.
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Friday
The weather forecast said rain for all our days on the westcoast and I had been worrying a bit about our visit to Liseberg and when Friday offered decent weather we decided to try our luck. I felt we couldnt chance it by waiting until Saturday, we had no guarantees it would be better. Liseberg didnt open until 3 pm so we had time to stop by at a biscuit and cracker factory where we got lots of goodies and then IKEA. The visit to IKEA was mainly for me to have a chance to look a bit at sofas, dining tables etc for Dubai. Partly to have an idea what I liked but also to be able to discuss and get some feedback from my mum. I find it quite useful to have someone else´s input and thought about sizes, colours and fabrics.
The visit to Liseberg is of course the main attraction for the kids and we did have a blast. J enjoyed that she was allowed to do the same rides as A and her favourite was Rabalder (a rollercoaster) and A´s favourite was Flumeride. We did miss R a lot though and really hope he can be with us next year.....We arrived at Liseberg @3pm and left at 9.40 pm (20 minutes before they closed) and you can bet we were all extremely tired when we sat down in the car.
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The visit to Liseberg is of course the main attraction for the kids and we did have a blast. J enjoyed that she was allowed to do the same rides as A and her favourite was Rabalder (a rollercoaster) and A´s favourite was Flumeride. We did miss R a lot though and really hope he can be with us next year.....We arrived at Liseberg @3pm and left at 9.40 pm (20 minutes before they closed) and you can bet we were all extremely tired when we sat down in the car.
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Thursday - travel day
My mum was working and the kids waited and asked me a million times when she would come home so we could leave. After lunch she showed up and we could pack the car and leave at about 2pm. I was rather worried, having the trip to Kolmården fresh in mind but I have to say the trip was quite alright. We made one stop at an outlet for a brand of kids shoes and once to have some dinner and at about 8.30 pm we arrived. Phew!
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Finally home!
Now we are home again after a lovely weekend but with many long hours in the car. Updates will come as I upload photos and write down what we did.
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Kolmården day 2
Meerkats
How small compared to an elephant
The kids got to pick one activity each to do again on the second day. J picked safari....
Brown bear taking a bath, the young ones waiting on the edge for the big one to be ready :)
....A picked dolphin show for the second day.
"Better seat" = slightly better photos
Little monkeys at Tropicarium outside Kolmården
Seems they liked my dad :)
Grey
Today is a grey day but when my mum can leave work (hopefully a bit earlier) we will load the car and go to the westcoast and my granny. Looking forward! The weather seems to be a problem for the weekend, especially since we wanted to go to Liseberg (a brilliant amusement park in Gothenburg). Pls keep all fingers crossed for good enough weather to go. Kids have been talking about it basically since last year (and I have been looking forward too, I turn into a kid when I go there) and J is finally tall enough to go on the rides A could do last year and she had to stay looking on...
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A day in the forest
Today we spent the day at my dads cabin in the forest, the kids really like it there. A probably a bit more than J. He really didnt want to leave and told me to go home and come back for him later. Instead we decided that one day when we are back from our trip to the westcoast my dad would take him there on his own, just the two of them. A is already excited about it :)
Kolmården day 1
Looking for animals
Wild dogs of some sort (asian maybe?)
Early lunch just before the birdshow
The "witch" and the The Eurasian Eagle-owl, my favourite
<3
At the dolphin show, we all agreed it was the best!
Pics didnt really come out nice in the somewhat dark and reflecting water...
Going for "Safari" with the cable car
A and my dad holding tight
J looking out
Lazy lions
Brown bear
J slept in my arms during the seal show
Tired tiger
Lovely snow leopard
At the petting zoo
Muskox (these live in the wild in Sweden)
Quick dinner at the cabin we rented, after a loooong day!
Early bird...
...hoping for an after b´fast nap :) Its 6.40 and I have already been up for an hour. How is it that one of the kids always wake up so early? Im abs knackered and hoping to sneak a nap after b´fast :)
Back from Kolmården
We are back from Kolmården zoo, havent really had the time or energy to write about it. Guess it will be a post with more pictures than test when i have the time to upload them :)
Its raining outside, pouring down and the kids are a bit bored inside. Just helped them build a bit of a tent and I hope it will keep the happy for a bit.
This morning they painted some paintings for R that we will try to send him when we have an address for him in Toulouse. A drew R on his picture, with a sad face. When I asked why dad was sad A replied: "cause he is alone". Bless him for thinking about the fact that R is missing them...
Its raining outside, pouring down and the kids are a bit bored inside. Just helped them build a bit of a tent and I hope it will keep the happy for a bit.
This morning they painted some paintings for R that we will try to send him when we have an address for him in Toulouse. A drew R on his picture, with a sad face. When I asked why dad was sad A replied: "cause he is alone". Bless him for thinking about the fact that R is missing them...
Lazy morning
Feeling amazingly lazy today. J awake before 6 and grey weather might have something to do with it? We will take a relaxed morning, lunch at my dads and before the end of the day I have to have packed and prepared for our two day trip to Kolmården zoo tomorrow!
The yelllow gold of the forest.
Much to A´s joy we went out to pick more chantarelles today. Both kids were very brave and good and walked around a lot without complaining. We found blueberries too and they ate quite a few. Finished off by seeing the wild boar roaming in that area.
Farm visits
Today we have been around looking at some farms in the area, once a year organised by the community, some farms open up for anyone to come and see animals and the work they do there. We went to 4 different places and seen cows milked by robots, had our hands licked by little calves, sitting in tractors, seen free range hens (and bought their eggs), seen horses, sheep, goats, cows, pigs, geese, hens etc and the finale was when we saw a dog rounding up the cows to bring them back to the farm. What a lovely and eventful day!
J said the calf was soooo cute and she just wanted to cuddle with it
Big kiss for J
J said the calf was soooo cute and she just wanted to cuddle with it
Big kiss for J
My favourite part of the day was the farm with the milking robots where the cows decide themselves when to be milked, they just go to the milking bay where a robot washes the udder and attaches the milking device. The cows have a microchip that opens gates around the farm letting them into the milking bay, out of it, into the feeding area or outside to the grass. Really interesting and modern! The kids loved the opportunity to "drive" the tractors. J liked to be licked on her hand by the calf, while the more reserved (read cowardly ;)) A didnt really dare to put out his hands as an offer for them to lick though with some help he did do it at the last farm :D
In the forest...
....picking wild raspberries (and blueberries)
Chanterelles!
A picking chanterelles...
...and J too
A now calls them "mummys favourite mushrooms"
Washing and painting
Yesterday we bought some stuff to clean wood with for my mums outside furniture and balcony floor cause we wanted to paint and oil them before winter. Today we managed to give a basecoat to the furniture and I oiled the floor. I can feel it in my body, I guarantee :) Tomorrow we hope to paint the furniture with the brown colour my mum picked for them.
Check out A covering his ears with the noise from the powerwash :)
Check out A covering his ears with the noise from the powerwash :)
The sun....
...is back but there is a feeling of autumn and coolness to the air. No problem for us though, we will enjoy the cold too :)
Have been out for a walk, taken a shower and now waiting for a visitor. A friend I went to school with is coming over and this afternoon we are going to Borlänge to collect my new passport and give J her chickenpox vaccine.
The passport is a story in itself....that A needed a new passport we knew perfectly well but when the kids were showing the passports to my dad he said that its will soon be time for me too. As if I replied but he was right! In July next year my passport will expire and there are quite a few reasons to renew it in Sweden, now. I went to Borlänge on tuesday hoping it would be ready today when we had to go up for the vaccination and believe it or not, I did get an sms today saying it was ready for collection. Luck is on my side for once!
Have been out for a walk, taken a shower and now waiting for a visitor. A friend I went to school with is coming over and this afternoon we are going to Borlänge to collect my new passport and give J her chickenpox vaccine.
The passport is a story in itself....that A needed a new passport we knew perfectly well but when the kids were showing the passports to my dad he said that its will soon be time for me too. As if I replied but he was right! In July next year my passport will expire and there are quite a few reasons to renew it in Sweden, now. I went to Borlänge on tuesday hoping it would be ready today when we had to go up for the vaccination and believe it or not, I did get an sms today saying it was ready for collection. Luck is on my side for once!
Lice
On monday A was scratching his head really much and complaining about it, we thought he was warm and said that we would cut his hair throughout the day. When I got around to it I saw something moving near his scalp. Lice? After googling we felt that must have been the case and after checking both me and J we discovered that we all had it :( We went to get something for it, had to sleep with it overnight and wash it out the morning after and it seems like we got rid of them and we just have to keep an eye and re apply the liquid in a week´s time.
It very strange that even though I KNOW that it has nothing to do with cleanliness, or the lack of it, if you get lice it feels dirty and slightly shameful, why is that?
It very strange that even though I KNOW that it has nothing to do with cleanliness, or the lack of it, if you get lice it feels dirty and slightly shameful, why is that?
