sibling beer, aka syskonöl

a few times every year me and my brothers meet up for an evening of talking and drinking beer. last tuesday was the only evening we all could make it before we moved, so we met up at peppar, one of our favorite bars/restaurants for some food, beer and pepper shots.

it was a bit too dark in there to actually take pictures of my brothers. although i might need to blame them more than the light; they wouldn't sit still!

they had beer, i splurged and had a strawberry daquiri

the food arrived and it was a bit too spicy for me. although pretty much every food is to spicy for me...

kalle compensated his pepper shot with eating sour cream with a spoon. 

then we went on to a pub for some after-beer-beers. all in all a very nice night. I'm surely going to miss these evenings. 

nov 13th - christmas

So, on to christmas. since we're in Ghana over christmas my family thought we needed to celebrate it a bit early this year. So almost all of us gathered at my aunt's place last saturday, for a full day of puzzles, wine and home cooked chinese food. just my kind of christmas.

we went all in for the REAL christmas feel. 

food preparations

dads home made spring rolls are AMAZING.

puzzle! a completely impossible on - monet (he must have been almost completely blind about then...)

peter reading away on his beloved kindle.

dad posing in his apron. he started dancing after that, but unfortunately all the pictures are blurry... 

svante. 

and that was that. the rest of the evening we had loads of food + talked. quite early we got too tired and crawled to bed. when we finally woke up this awaited us:

breakfast, as it should be!

ylwa's 30th

It's been a while since I posted. It's a bit crazy right now. Less than a month before we move, a zillion things to do at work and only five days left to do them and a whole apartment to pack. And in between all our todo's we got tons of people to see, hang out with etc. This weekend we celebrated an early Christmas with my family. No photos from there yet, you'll have to make due with pictures from our close friend Ylwa's awesome thirtieth b-day party last weekend. 

the girl of the evening. 

we had dubious amounts of punch. and no, it was cold, not boiled.

gift card reading. i do believe this is when she got a bikram yoga session. yikes!

party people. 

Peter had an appetizer named after him. he was quite proud. 

showing off her splendid gifts. fyi; the shower cap was from us. they're moving to a flat in a house with a pool next year so we guessed she might be needing some bathing attire. she also got a blow-up-bar and a giant rubber duck. 

johan. 

then it was quiz time! 

the best (even if we didn't win..) team in action! 

team discussions. 

me and marre

midnight yoga break.  

CB

 marre and anna 

stefan and ylwa's colleague. 

all in all, this picture pretty much shows you my state of mind that evening. it was awesome!

family fika

on saturday I had planned an art gallery outing with my mum. Before we went there she and my dad and my niece and nephew hung out at our place a bit for a fika. 

tyra taking control over the sofa

then fika! 

then my dad (and her grandpa) stopped playing. no fun no more!

we found a couple of photo albums from when my parents were kids. 

tyra asked what a photo album was, and i realized that photo albums is something that's disappearing. but they're so nice, who really has the time to look from a zillion files on a hard drive? I have to start making ones. 

then we went to the art hall in the marabou park, followed by seafood lunch at the adjoining restaurant. it's the same place as we had coffee at last week. seems to become quite a tradition. I like it! 

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 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!

friends & dinner

I spent yesterday evening with a few old friends from uni, enjoying good food, a cold beer and fabulous company.

if you ever go to koh phangan, be sure to order a nitnoy!

and eat tzay satay! it's heavenly.

oli

me, laughing.

the only pictures i did manage to take of maria was all blurry. i'll do better next time.