We started the year off with a storm resulting in no phone reception, no ferry going to and from the small island (Fårö) we were on and no electricity. Luckily my parents have two fire places in their house and we could get drinking water. We could also boil water on one of the two fireplaces to make coffee, pasta etc.
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| Playing fun games in the dark... |
We were lucky to be able to get on the ferry back to the main land as planned. Since we had sold our house outside Stockholm, we had endless things to take care of! However, I really really wanted to go up and visit my sister up in Åre before we left Sweden. We did not really have time for that but I had never been there since she moved up a few years ago so we decided that me and the kids would go with mormor and morfar while Alex would stay home and work, and pack up our house.
Since we could not all fit in mormor's and morfar's car me and Marlee took the night train up which actually resulted in that I only missed two days of packing and fixing with our house. And, it was sooo nice to be able to do something with only Marlee! We had a very good time on the train!
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| Taking the "pendel train" into Stockholm |
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| No train ride without snacks! |
We arrived to Åre early morning and we had a great day with my sister and her family, and mormor and morfar! We started the day with a long walk up a mountain. Before sledding down hill we had some snacks and then we had great fun going down!
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| Short break before sledding down |
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| Me and Rafael fell, but not badly, as you can see on his smiley eyes :-) |
We had a delicious waffle lunch when we got back and then me and the boys went to see a friend of mine, from when I grew up, who also lives in Åre, with her family.
The second and last day we went SKIING!!! Marlee has done it a few times, second time for Noah and first time for Gabriel. It was so much fun and Linn had manages to borrow all we needed from her friends. The only sad thing was that the cousins, Ailo and Björn did not feel very good that day.
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| Me and Noah in the lift |
After two wonderful days in Åre me and Marlee got on the train back again and the others left the next morning. Now we really had to focus on moving out of our house and getting back to Florida.
