Oh if I only knew Swedish!

After two days of spending Ellie’s nap attempting to contact a doctor’s office to make an appointment,  I finally gave up and sent David to work with the phone number.  I was able to do some online research to find potential doctors and also got some suggestions from the newcomers group.  Making the call was the difficult part. Like in the US, when phoning an office you first receive a prerecorded message and all of the phone messages are in Swedish.  I attempted to use Google translator to work my way through the system with very little success.  David got some help from one of the Swedish Electrolux employees to get through the system.  The first place on my list only answers calls between 8:15 and 9:30am Monday through Thursday.  Great, explains why I never was able to get anywhere with that call. 

Ellie and I had a lazy morning and early lunch followed by a trip to the park.  We found a really neat park over by Fridemsplan.  Ellie, who normal doesn’t like to slide, had a great time sliding down a large, fast slide.  She had taken Hair baby and had fun letting hair baby slide and the “catch” Ellie when she followed.  On our walk back to the train station we found the Swedish version of the dollar store.  They had all the cheap plastic kids’ toys, candles, dusters etc.

We used the oven for the first time tonight.  Again, no manual and for me it is not intuitive.  I was able to get the temp set correctly…thank goodness for Google but had no idea what picture equaled bake.  I finally took a guess and found the one that seemed to produce the right heat.  There was no rack in site except one that sat on the bottom.  We baked potatoes and salmon and steamed an artichoke.  I had really bad timing and the artichoke became an appetizer.  Over all the meal was yummy. 

In the mail today, came a letter from the tax authority.  David and I spent about 3 hours trying to translate it and answer the questions.  It appears that Sweden is not quite sure why they let me in the country.  Let’s hope I answered all the questions right.  I would hate not to be let back in after Christmas.

Ellie and Hair Baby have fun on the slide!



I made it to the top!