When the sun doesn't want to shine

Made saffron buns with white chocolate and pinjenuts! There isn't too much else to do a rainy day. Reading my new book "lifetime" by Liza Marklund and watching the last Arrested developement episodes. Tomorrow we are leaving for Örebro to attend a name-giving-party to my cousin's daughter, Cornelia.

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!

Welcome home philip!

Back were it all started...

Philip arrived yesterday night after 9 months of travel. It was great seeing him again even though it was less then 3 months ago we saw each other. His 2 last months was spend in the USA were he stayed with both Chris brother and parents. Haven't had the time to talk alot to him yet but i'm happy he is here!

Got to try new things!

Weird but good

I'm brought up on Singoalla cookies (you can acctually buy them on any IKEA store in the world) and this year they've made a new one with liquorice. It's sounds super weird but the taste is really good! Swedish people love liquorice compare to other nations so this is probably nothing which would sell abroad...

We went climbing today and i didn't climb especially good. I actually fell pretty bad and scratched myself all the ways on the legs. Not going to look good in a skirt for a while...

Worked a couple of hours on the school prom. It was my last day of work for a while, next time will be in a week and a half and then it's starting for real with 65h/week...

I think me an Chris are going to Smögen tomorrow to climb. Chris is leaving on Sunday so we have only this week left in each others company until the end of july.

Cleaning, voting and watching tennis on a rainy Sunday

I beleive this substance is called mold

I'm not proud of it but i found this teacup under my bed when i was cleaning earlier today...
It's raining so Skagerack is closed today and i'm free. Besides cleaning under my bed i've been voting for which swedish party we should send to the European Parlament. Sweden is in the EU but has still got it's own currency . We need to decide wether or not Europe should become a "power" nation, how much influence the EU will have over each country and how easy it should be to work, move adn make business over the borders.
Just realized the tennis final have started! Robin Söderling against Roger Federer, not to be missed! By the way Sweden lost against Danmark yesterday....

Sweden's nationalday

I almost forgot today is the 6th of june; Sweden's nationalday! It's not a huge deal, not even close to the celebrations in Norway on their nationalday, but still a reason to get together and maybe eat some good food.
One tradition is to put up the swedish flag. My parents are looking for ours now and my guess is that they probably wont find it...

Sweden is playing against Danmark later on today (soccer) and that is a big reason to celebrate, if we win of course.

A good friday

First of all Robin Söderling did beat Fernando Gonzales yesterday! Unfortunately i only watched the first 4 sets and as Robin was on his way to loose the 5th i decided go to work (it was about time anyway). The final is playing on Sunday and it's going to be a good one!
I also made a super good carrotcake! I mixed in some limecest in the frosting and had alot of ginger, cardemom and cinnamon in the cake. It tourned out very well!
Work was good, i didn't work so late and there wasn't too many people. Going to work in about 1,5 h but before that breakfast!

Sports event coming up

Robin Söderling is playing semifinal in the French Open today...It was a long time ago a Swedish player went that far in a Grand Slam tournament.
The Swedish national team in soccer plays against Danmark tomorrow to qualify for the World championship next year. Zlatan Ibrahimovic who just won the Italian goal league is playing from start. To bad I'm working and can't watch it...

Shopping day at Nordby

So they've opened a new shopping mall 29 min from Strömstad, on the border to Norway. It's been one there for a while but now it expanded to twice the size. They call it Norway biggest shopping mall even though it's in Sweden...Anyway we went there today to check it out and do some shopping. It was acctually pretty good! I found 7 books for only 10 dollars, table cloths and a dress.

Learn english!

Sorry germans but this is really funny! Laughing every time i see it...

Fantastic Pie!

Last friday i made a Lime and Merengue pie and according to my mum it was a 10+/10, the best i've ever done!

Pepsie

Couldn't help putting up this photo of our little cat Pepsie. She was almost dying in februari of some kidney problem but now she is back to her normal self. Life of a cat isn't too bad according to Pepsie; sleeping, eating and hunting during the night and then sleeping some more!

Lost!

A plane with 228 people have disappeard! Jeez, i'm not taking Air France in the future. I know i have a bigger chance of dying in a car accident but stories like this freak me out! Maybe they found a LOST island though....

Rhubarb cake

This is what i baked today to celebrate the summer! The rhubarbs were picked from the garden and together with marzipan and cinnamon made it an excellent cake!

June = summer

1st of june and summer is here! Celebrated with sunbathing in the garden, reading and eating cookies. It got really hot in the middle of the day and we moved inside and so did Isa, it's hard to be all black in the sun!