Sweden bound

So I relocated from Chicago back to Sweden and I have been here about a month now and not been able to update the blogg at all. My main excuse is that I have been lazy and things have been busy with work and trying to get accustome to the new culture. Even if I am Swedish I have had a little bit of culture shock myself:

1. The coffee drinking is insane here. It is mandatory after every lunch. Blank with no suger and milk, pretty much taste like crap. I miss the sweet sensations of starbucks

2. Everyone is so tan here eventhough it rains pretty much every day. It even rains when it is a clear sky and sunny, not really sure how that can happen but it happens here. I am guessing everyone is fake tanning

3. Stores, banks etc close very early. Not sure when a person gets to shop if they carry a 9 - 5 job.

4. People walk or bike everywhere. There are lots of cars around of course but they are all extremely small.

5. Swedes are designey.. It seems like all swedes spend most of their time at ikea or other decorating stores because their homes are so stylish. I need to get with the program and get rid of the old couch.

6. Drinking age is 18. Which makes me feel so old when I go to the bar because some of the people at the bars over here doesn't even look like they have entered puberty.

Those are a couple of things that I can think of right now. I really have been loving it here and everything here is so beautiful, the archipelago, the city and the nature. I really feel blessed to be here and really only have one thing to complain about and that is the rain.

Torsdagkvall med svenskorna

Igar sa hade vi en liten picknick i parken nere i stan med svenskatjejerna. Det var jattekul att se alla och det borjar kannas lite vemodigt eftersom jag inte kommer att se vissa utav dem innan jag flyttar till sverige. Vi satt och snackade och sedan sa spelade vi kubb.. syd mot nord precis som i Robinson! Jag var pa syd laget for allt soder om stockholm var syd. Vi vann forresten, kandes valdigt bra!

Filming in Utah

So I went to Utah from Monday to Wednesday this week for work. We stayed up in a beautiful resort in Deer valley, but I still like mountains better with snow on it. I like to ski not hike. We were there to film a presentation for one of the trauma registrar trainings. I do not like public speaking and do really not like being filmed while doing a presentation. I am not a film star that is for sure. I did pull it off without to much fidgeting and now I will be on the internet as a lecturer.. maybe I will get a fan club? On Tuesday night my friend Stephanie came and we had dinner, catch up and hung out for awhile. It was great seeing her before we leave. I am thinking we will have to continue our annual ski-trips but maybe I can convince her to come to Europe for one?

Weekend of Angola

Last weekend we went out to celebrate my husband since he put his 2 weeks notice in. Yes, it is really worth celebrating since he has pretty much dreamt about that day and been looking forward to it for a very long time. Unfortunatly his boss was sick that day which stole some of the thunder. We also celebrated that he had gotten accepted into graduate school in Sweden which will be awesome because I was a bit worried about what he was going to do once we got over there. No more worries for us. We had beers in a beer garden by the river and I realized how beautiful chicago is during the summer. On saturday we drove to my brother's in Indiana. We hung out at their house, bbq and played lots of lawn games. It was such a nice day to just hang out. On Sunday we were back in Chicago and had open house, cleaned, started packing and ran errands. I get exhausting just thinking about it, because that was in fact a really really exhausting day.

The 4th

We went to minneapolis for the 4th of July to visit our friends Tracy and Greg. The weekend was filled with hanging in the sun, beer drinking and bowling at Brit's, playing kubb in the park, a twins game and lots of Wii playing. It was really a great weekend and fun to get some quality time hanging out with friends.

Wedding photographer

This weekend we went to Des Moines for our friends Traci and Steve's wedding. It was a supersweet wedding with the corn fields in the background, cowboys two stepping, friends rocking out to 80s music, and fireworks. Matt was actually asked to do the photos at the wedding and I know that he was nervous since this was his first real official 'job' as a photographer. He was very professional and he even dressed the part as you can see from the photo. I just posted some of my favorite photos from the wedding. By the way, Traci's favorite movie is "Roman Holiday" if you wonder about the photo below...

Colorado

Vi akte till Colorado forra helgen for jag skulle dit pa ett mote. Vi landade i mysiga denver dar vi traffade Chris (en gamal polare fram college) och hans flickvan. Vi gick och tittade pa colorado rockies matchen mot new york mets. Vi fick biljetter fran Chris och vi satt pa rad 6(!). Jag var livradd och kande att jag satt och duckade for jag trodde att jag skulle fa en baseball i huvudet. Pa sondagen sa korde vi upp till Breckenridge dar min mote var. Vi stannade och shoppade och helt otroligt, men det var inte jag som shoppade denna gang utan Matt. Det var fortfarande mycket sno uppe pa bergen och vi forsokte att vara riktiga skogsmullar och ga i skogen och ut och springa etc.. men vi kande oss trotta och kunde knappt springa 200 m. innan jag blev helt slutet. Jag ar verkligen inte redo for high altitude traning. Sa mestadels av resan var mysig och vi tog det lungt i bubble poolen och tittade pa filmer.