(right now, since I am so far behind with the updating of this blog, there will be a big gap between this post and the previous post... however, that will change as I hope to catch up during the next couple of months...) I just want to say...
God Jul och Gott Nytt År!!!
2019
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Te-Pe in mormor's and morfar's back yard
It is now always fun to play in the snow...
Christmas lunch
Swedish Christmas food, including schnapps and songs to sing before drinking the schnapps :-)
Waiting for Santa...
Normally morfar is dressed up as Santa but this year he tricked us all and had asked his brother to do it!!!
A box of candy...
A puzzle for everyone who wants to join!!
We had enough snow for some sledding until today, when it got warmer again.
Now we are enjoying walks and indoor activities until the next snow falls...
Day 95: Alex's birthday and our last day of this roadtrip...
A friend of ours who worked with Alex in Katowice stayed at the same hotel as we did in Gdansk and she brought Alex some delicious desserts for his birthday that we all shared! After celebrating him in the morning Alex had to do some work so me and kids explored Gdansk. It has a lot of history and a lot of beautiful buildings. We walked around a lot but also visited a toy museum with a lot of old toys.
In the afternoon it was time to head to the ferry that would take us back to Stockholm, Sweden.
We got to go on the new ferry and it had a lot better play area for the kids than the older ones. It made our trip so much better!
To park the car we had to go down in a car elevator to the garage. Very exciting!!
Day 91: Zwickelina and dinner with my friend and her family
What a beautiful place! The German Christmas decorations might be some of the most beautiful ones! The boys and I tried to visit some children "museums" first but nothing was open at this time of the year so we ended up going to an indoor play place, Zwickelina. We had so much fun!! When we had had enough fun we drove into town to meet my friend when she finished work to have dinner with her, her husband and her daughter, who I had never met before. She is Rafael's age.
Note the wooden Christmas decorations in the windows
Zwickelina fun!
I drove with Rafael, this was probably their favorite thing
Dinner with my friend and her family
Day 92: Shopping and Christmas market
We spent some of the day shopping in a shopping mall since it was really really cold outside and we did not have good clothes for that. However, later in the evening we had to ignore the cold as much as we could to visit the Christmas market. How wonderful!! It always bring me such joy to go to Christmas markets when it is actually winter :-) Zwickau had a great Christmas market and I wanted to buy to many things!! My friend was able to join us the whole day so that was very nice!
My friend and I (I met her in Chambery at the same time as I met Alex :-)
Day 93: Good bye and (a very looong) drive back to Katowice
We had breakfast with my friend before we had to leave to go back to Alex and Poland and go back to Sweden. The trip home was almost as adventurous as the trip here, but in a different way. There was one or more accidents on the highway and it delayed us several hours. For a long time the traffic was completely stopped. Good I had some kid's CDs in the car and kids who are wonderful travelers!!!
Note how the cars in the left lane drive all the way to the left. It is because there is a law that they have to do that when there is an accident so that there is a lane for ambulances etc. It is so interesting to see how the German people follow the law so obedient (similar to Swedes) when I have a very hard time imagining Greeks or Italians caring at all for a law like that.
