Summer evening activities

Chris and his climbing friend

Found a nice area very close to our apartment. Chris can go climbing and i can go running around the lake. Love free summer activites in beautiful nature!

Dragon mining

The gold mine

One of the walls

Looking good in my helmet...

Snow shoeing up a mountain

View of the mine from the top

Chris has been showing me the mine today and i must say i'm pretty impressive by the work he does. He is basicly looking for the next place his company will drill for gold (and make a new mine). They probably only have about 1 year left of gold on this mine so alot of people depends on if he finds it or not. I really liked his office and the building where he's working. It's to bad it's so far away otherwise this would have been such a perfect job!
We also went walking with snow shoes today which is the first time for me. It was cool and not as tireing as i expected. Norrland is growing on me...

Awsome weekend!

Hemavan

Me and Chris took 2 days skiing in Hemavan, a skiresort a couple of hours west of Pauträsk. The conditions the first day wasn't great but the sun was partly shining and we had fun. Today it was abit slushy but still nice. There was alot of people there though as it's the Easter weekend.
The battery for my camera died so i couldn't take a photo of our amazing easter buffee friday night. Salmon, egg, herring, baked bread, cheese...

Just another beautiful day in Lappland

Beautiful weather!

Little red cottage

Snow covered car

I took a walk on the lake

Keep right with your snow mobile!

I got a companion

I've been talking a long walk in Pauträsk today. Then i was just sitting in the sun with a cup of coffee, my sunglasses (and the chemistry book). That's one of the small things which can make me so happy sometimes.

Great ski day!

Beautiful!

Ingemar backen

Very good conditions!

I have my easter break now for a week and then i have another week off as i passed all my exams last year (which others have to take that week). I'm going to spend this whole time in Norrland with Chris. We went snowboarding yesterday and it was absolutely amazing! The conditions were just perfect as it had been snowing the whole night. The sun was shining on us and there were almost no people around. We went to Tärnaby, a skiresort 2h drive for Chris place. This is were one of Swedens best sports men ever started his career. Ingemar Stenmarck has 86 world cup victories in slalom and is from Tärnaby which is a city of only 533 inhabitants. Pretty cool!

Winter wonderland

Chris

not the best trekks - but good enough

snow + sun = ♥

Me and Chris went cross country skiing on the golf corse today. It was beautiful, i just love beeing outside when it's like this! Chris said after that "it wasn't his thing" but i'm not giving up - he will like it one day!

Activities

Avatar - all 3D

After just eating and sitting down for too long the whole familly decided to workout at the gym at my mum's work yesterday. There is also a big nice and worm pool to go swimming in after and a traditional swedish sauna. Me, Magnus and Marc went outside in our swimsuits rolling around in the snow before getting back jumping in the pool - lovely! Chris did not join us, think he thought be were abit nuts!

Today's been a beautiful day with sun and tons of snow. We went cross country skiing on the golf course and it was really nice. Couldn't take any photos as my camera run out of battery...
Going to see the new 3D movie Avatar now. Hope it's a good one.

Truffles and ice skating

Truffles...

Ice skating on the ström(stream) which runs through
Strömstad (there of the name)

Chris in action

Yesterday i was making fudge and truffles, went to watch Marc perform at his school (really good), watched some more desperate housewifes episodes (man, you can get stuck watching anything really) and made food for the familly. Today i cut my hair (no one noticed), bought the last christmas presents and went ice skating on the stream which goes through the city all the way out in the ocean. I'm a bit restless though, think i'm bad at just relaxing. When this break is over after 5 weeks i will be so ready to start school again!

Visiting Lidköping and Örebro

Läckö castle, Lidköping

Me, Chris and my parents took a little roadtrip to Örebro this weekend to celebrate my cousin's baby daughter at her "name-giving-party". This was acctually just the beginning of Chris 1120 km drive up north to Storuman the folowing day. Anyway it was a way to break up the drive for him and a chance for us to meet up with relatives we don't see so often. We made a stop in Lidköping on the way there to see one of the most beautiful castles in Sweden, Läckö, and to get some nation wide famous pastries.
Chris left this morning and i wont see him until his parents get here in about 5 weeks. This is the longest time we've been parted for 2 years.

Short trip to Smögen

Smögen

Hållö/Kleven

Excellent sportclimbing right next to the sea

Me and Chris took a quick trip to Smögen, an island 1h south of Strömstad. We did some sport climbing at a wall right next to the water, really beautiful!

Nice weather and good climbing

The trees are starting to get leaves/Cris after ascending a 6b

Spring had come to Grebbestad

Chris on his way up a 7a

Ingrid on a 6b

I really, really starting to enjoy climbing. Who would have thought there would be such a use for all the granit i've been growing up around?! It took Chris a long time to convince me about trying this sport, more then a year to be honest. I don't like to be convinced things. Plus i think it's import that couples have different interests. If you'll do everything together you become one person. But here i'm loving the sportclimbing and the challenge it brings.

The beauty of the sport is that it can suit all kind of people and bodytypes. Maybe a guy with lot's of arm muscles and core strenght can manage one "problem" while a tall and light girl can manage a much more balancy "problem" with the same rating.
To go climbing in playses like Smögen, Grebbestad and Gothenburg when the weather is like now is fantastic. I love the swedish spring weather when it's not raining.

We've done our forst weekend working. Great! feel good to finally make some money again.

Colorado snowboard trip

The highest sand dunes in north america

The great sand dunes national park in Colorado

Chris reading on the balcony

Chris, Clint and Julie in Wolf creek

Just got home (home as in Chris home in Houston, Texas) from a snowboard trip in Colorado and we had a great time. It was me, Chris and one of his best friends Clint and his wife Julie. The ski resort was called wolf creek and was a pretty small one in the south of the state. It was small, but there was almost no people so we could pretty much just run up and down the slopes. 

we just bought me a new snowboard and it was great! so much better then my last one. I could finally go much faster and it almost never cought any edges. 

To bad it's a year to the next ski trip, maybe in norway...or the french alps!

Will post some photos too but not now as chris just made a oven roasted chicken for his mom's birthday (i'll make salmon for her tomorrow). Oh and we played tennis today and it was so fun! I'm so glad i took all those tennis lessons (against my will sometimes) as a kid.