Mikico

After Cosmonova we took the subway to old town and the central part of Stockholm to go on a vinyl hunt.

We also got to witness some sort of accident on the canal.

We didn't find any vinyles but we got a really nice walk of sightseeing.

Today we went to Cosmonova in the Museum of National History.

It's a big round movietheatre with a moviescreen that surrounds you on all sides. We saw the movie Sea Rex, a movie about the dinosaurs of the ocean. It was really good and that it was in 3D as well didn't hurt.

After the movie we also got to visit the museum and after that we took a trip to the centrum of Stockholm to look for vinyles.

 

Tonight we flew to Stockholm. Second time me and Daniel flew together and first time to fly in Sweden (for him I mean). When we landed at Arlanda we were greeted by my grandpa' and later welcomed with toast, cheese, shrimps and white wine by my grandma' at their place.

Driving home after the movie yesterday I and Daniel saw something really rare. Not just because it's rare in general but because you usually can't see it unless it's really cold, which is not normally the weather condition in Sweden during August.

Never the less we actually saw the northern lights yesterday, despite the warm temperature. 

It was hard to recognize at first since it was really faint in color (probably because of the warm temperature) and since it was also foggy outside last night. But after a while I pointed it out to Daniel after noticing its distinct shape and movement, indicating that it in fact was the northern lights.

We couldn't see much of it from inside the car, but it was beautiful to look at once we got into the darkness of my backyard. It was literally everywhere above us and moving in soft silky waves. Shouted to mom and dad to come out and take a look at it too.

What a way to end a movie night about life in space!

Me and Daniel are flying the coop tonight when my mom and her girlfriends are having the so called Surströmming dinner. Yet another Swedish tradition were we eat fermented fish, a swedish delicasy, yumm!

Or maybe not, cause this so called delicasy stinks worse than (what I imagine) an old corpse would smell like, but is suppose to taste like heaven. I wouldn't know though, I ain't ever trying it!

Here's some more pictures from yet another weird Swedish tradition. The crawfish party usually takes place in the middle of August, probably cause that, historically, is the month when Swedish crawfish is just ripe in the lake. So this is the yearly party when Swedes all over the world join in to play with their food, wear crazy hats and drink spirits. 

But whatever floats your boat right!

Skål!

This past Saturday we were invited to a wedding. The bride is an old classmate of mine, Lovisa, and she married Niklas at three o'clock in Vindeln's church. The weather was nice, the cermony was beautiful and so was the bride and groom.

A big congratulation to the newly married!

Länge leve kärleken!

 

Another decade has passed and my mother might be ten years wiser but does not look a day older. 

Congratulations to the best mom I could have ever gotten.

About a week ago we finally had mom's big celebration. It was a huge success! Friends and family came from all over the country and we had lots of fun with games, speaches, melody quizes, surprise performances, delicious food and great company!

A night to remember.

Yesterday and today we've been preparing for my mom's big party, which I'm really looking forward to ^^

So today I've been cleaning and folding napkins all day.

Was really fun though! Got real creative and started youtubing a bunch of cool ways to fold a napkin.

Think I learned about six.

But at the end of the day I stuck with the beautiful and clean fan and my family's trade fold.

Totally going to give myself an opportunity to try out the others in the near future though.

Daniel got a job!! And not any job, he gets to work with what he loves most, light and sound.

On Monday I took him to his interview with Umeå Audio. He was nervous of course, but I knew he had nothing to worry about.

And what do you know, 6 hours later he's not only employed but had also been offered to go as a light- and sound technician to a jazz festival in Norway. I will miss him on mom's 50 year old birthday party on Saturday, but that offer was to great to turn down!

So I talked to him earlier today on the new phone we bought him before he left and he's having a blast! Go figure.

Really got to get it going now with my career as well now.

 

Sorry for the absence. Daniel and I have been jobhunting lately.

Last Sunday I, Daniel, mom and dad went out to pick blueberries. That's actually something I love about Sweden, that our berries have no parasites and grow in abundance so you can pick pounds and pounds of them wild in the forest. Blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, raspberries, black- and redcurrant, wild strawberries (hideaways), blackberries and so on, all without extra charge... or any charge that is.

I think Daniel was very fascinated with the berry picker we use to pick the berries with, but he truely enjoyed it!.. Especially eating the berries I think. But either way me and Daniel actually managed to pick a whole bucket of berries between taking pictures, eating blueberries and masskilling mosquitoes.

Afterwards we went home and ate some more blueberries, but this time in form of a pie.

 

Yesterday we climbed the Skule mountain, along with my cousin Oliver, uncle Håkan and his girlfriend Ann-Cathrine. Daniel was convinced that we were just going for a hike, so imagine the surprise when he saw the steep mountain wall we were actually going up. My dad was kind enough to buy us all climbing gloves so that our swetty hands wouldn't slipp as easily while grabbing on to rocks and the metal wires we were attatched to. Later when we all were dripping because of the hot sun and the climb I think we all were very greatfull to be wearing them.

It was truely amazing! We climbed up the yellow trail along Via Ferrata and now both me and Daniel have a very nice T-shirt with that name printed on it. Something my dad also tearted us with.

So thank you dad for the beautiful gifts and some wonderful memories, it was more than great!

In Sweden we actually have a pretty sweet tradition called the names day.

It means that basically every day of the year we celebrate people with different names. Like Mikaela and Michel on the 29th of September for an example.

Either way, yeasterday we had the pleasure to celebrate my dad, Per, on his name day. We did this by going with the whole family to run orientering in the forest (it's when you run in the forest, following a map and tracking down certain controlls) taking turns to tracking the controlls. It was a very nice and enjoyable run.

And after that we had cake.

Today it just so happens to be my and my aunts name day, Karin, so happy name day to us!

So today me and Daniel had lunch with my dear friend Josefine at Eastern Palace, took a trip around town and I bought myself a very nice book to write down all my recipes in.

Now we're about to eat a delicious blueberry cake that I just made and watch a movie.

Tomorrow we're going to climb in the mountains ^^