friday

This has been one party filled weekend. I never thought I had it in me. anyway.

On Friday we went out for a three course dinner at the restaurant where we had our wedding brunch. It was a freebie, since they forgot a few promised things that day. the place was almost empty, only us and two other couples. The food was great (even though they once again forgot we don't eat meat, oh well).

chocolate cake for dessert

before moving on we had after dinner drinks round the fireplace

next stop: some small club on söder to see a friend's band. 

andi and peter.

then the band, united, started playing

matti never stood still. 

and it was good!

drummer boy.

after the show we hung out and talked. when the place closed we took the tube home.  

a royal scottish visit

this weekend we got a long overdue visit from our glorious scots:

suz and fran 

friday. 

we met up on friday afternoon after work

peter had just bought a kindle. he just had to show it off. 

after a beer at the smallest bar in sundbyberg, we went to a tapas place. awesome food, but dark! 

after that we were off to bishops arms for a beer. suz had a small one, mine was somewhat larger. 

peter 

saturday.

peter and fran went and got bread from the local baker's

later in the day we went for a walk. 

to the marabou park. 

where we had a fika at the new restaurant

fran

flowers

then we walked back, made dinner and some absinth milkshakes. 

the cat felt excluded

 

suz

then we were too tired to do anything, watched some family guy and went to bed. 

they left early this morning. now they're back in edinburgh. we've spent the day reading books, petting cats and tried to tidy up the flat. 

wednesday night playground

wednesday night dinner and hang out with elin and awesome two year old alvar.

alvar!

blurry elin

alvar had an abacus in lovely colours.

 

trains seem to be a bit of a favourite. i get that though. i love trains. 

more cool toys! or these i do believe are a bit too cute to toyed with. 

feet!

and that's it for my wednesday night. always nice to be there, only thing that clouded the visit was my stomach ache. oh well, i guess you can't have it all. 

a bit of company

a few friends met on Monday to see the season finale of the swedish dating (ehh) show "lite sällskap" (a bit of company). it just had to be celebrated!

we poured the champagne 

ate som canapés

  

then we watched the show

sometimes we had to take out the infamous "skämskudden"

most of all, we had fun!

ropsten

At 8 AM our alarms went off. Not long after 9 we dragged ourselves to the train and headed to my brother's place, taking care of a kid for a few hours, cutting hair, playing games and hanging out. I forgot to take any pictures there, but managed to snap a few while waiting for the tube back.

peter feeling pointed out.

i couldn't quite decide if i loved this painting on a wall (which i actually hadn't seen before, even though i've been here tons of times before), or just thought it was ugly. oh well, it was definitely interesting.

now: back to folding clothes, going through things and trying to sort through the apartment. wish me luck!

fire

I'm trying to get rid of a lot of old papers and enjoy the heat that a nice fire gives at the same time. Unfortunately paper creates more smoke than fire, so now it stinks here.

after work

friday night and we went for dinner and drinks at Judit & Bertil in Sthlm. Lovely food, nice atmosphere and awesome friends. 

peter hanging out in the bar

stefan. the lighting was nice for hanging out, not so nice for taking photos

Andi and me 

ylwa

johan going home!

footie and beer

on wednesday night after roger caught the train I went over to o'learys to hang out with my man and a couple of friends for a few minutes. I managed to see only a few minutes of the barcelona - copenhagen game (quite boring, actually) and nicked a few sips of beer from peter.

johan

for some reason the boys started showing love towards their biceps. don't ask me

peter

and stefan!

wednesday night bowling

For some reason I've been out bowling quite a lot the last few weeks. Quite a lot = two times. Yesterday my friend Roger was in town and we managed to squeeze in dinner and a bowl before he had to go home.

roger

and off it goes! 

we had to do dances when you got a strike or a spare (in Swedish: spärr). this is part of my spare dance, trying to look like a train door. don't ask why, i have no idea. 

I had to dance quite often though; I managed to do SIX strikes! WHOOPIE! I managed less spares though.. oh well, there'll be more opportunities!

roger tried another technique. it worked really well for him. promise.