It was a nice train ride home to Sweden but not as exciting as when we traveled to Denmark. Before we left for Denmark we had to cover all our furniture and put everything away because they were going to paint our apartments. Our place looked like the summer home in ‘On Golden Pond’, all closed up for the winter! So, when we got home we had a lot of unpacking to do. Not only our suitcases but where we had stuffed things to get them out of the way! We ate at the ‘Pub’ because we had no milk, juice, fresh fruit and such! We stopped by the store on the way home and got necessities!
Tuesday we were very lazy compared to last week. We did the wash, vacuumed, dusted, and just did a lot of catching up.
Our cute friend, Syster Olsson, at the temple had us over for a birthday lunch. She said she was going to have herring and we were not too excited to go and not eat. She fixed way too much food and she did have two kinds of herring and many other kinds of food. We both took a LITTLE piece of the herring in mustard sauce and ate it with potato so we did not make her feel bad. She is the lady that has a very bad back and this social system of medicine here just told her she is too old to do anything about the pain except get stronger pain pills. She walks to the temple and stays for a couple of hours and then has to go home. Her only daughter lives in the states and they do not communicate very much. How sad! I told her I would be her daughter but since she is only six year older than I am she just laughed and said nej!!! We have found a few times to practice our guitars. We are getting better but still we only play in our apartment for ourselves!
I did get the back of my hair trimmed this week. I thought I was going to a solon but it was just in a home of a lady in our ward. Syster Olsson arranged for it and even went with me to show me where to go. Then sweet Syster Sihlén would not let me pay her. She said that is her mission to cut the missionaries hair.
We have been on several long walks this week but the flowers are not out yet. They say that they have tiny flowers blooming all over in the Viking Cemetery and I keep taking the camera when we walk but have not used it yet!
We had a RS Educational Day for the Stake. It was really good and we had a Syster translate for us. In between each speaker they had a young woman make us stand up and do some kind of exercise or stretching or breathing, it was very effective.
We were to have our new missionary couple arrive this week. BUT they are stuck in Provo because their visa has not come yet. And with all the airports being closed because of the volcano in Iceland they would not been able to come anyway. It is hard to understand why the Stockholm airport is closed because we have blue skies, but then the news tells us that it is the ash clouds that cause the problems. We had planned a Sunday dinner all together with the Sheen’s (the missionary couple waiting for their visas) but we ate together anyway. It was my birthday dinner. I did get a beautiful plant and a delicious tårta (princess cake) from Chuck.
Thanks for all the emails, cards, gifts and thoughts. I am truly blessed to have such awesome friends and family.
Stockholm Street
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