We had quite a relaxing day. David was off, due to a bridge day between the holiday and weekend. Sweden has about 10 days that they label as bridge days. There purpose is to bridge the gap between a Tuesday or Thursday holiday to give you a four day weekend. The last of our luggage arrived. It was like Christmas again since we couldn’t remember everything that was in the bag. We attempted to make a cheese ball. We couldn’t find onion flakes, just onion powder so it turned out more like a spread but tasted the same as normal. We did however find a cracker that is almost but not quite a Ritz. It is the closest thing to an American cracker that we have found. David discovered a bakery across the street from the apartment. Now we know where to get cakes from. We found a really yummy layered chocolate custard cake to take with us to game night.
After naptime it was off to Angie and John’s apartment for game night. She had also invited her friend Ida (pronounced Eda) and her dog Wilson (pronounced Vilson). Eda is the first Swedish person that I have really spent time with in a small relaxed setting. Thank goodness for Google. Her English was wonderful (She even corrected some of our English) but it was interesting the words that were different enough that she didn’t know (ie midwife = barnmorska). In Swedish barn is child but morska is only a word with it is with barn. There was also much confusion over moose and elk. A moose in Swedish is älg (which sounds a lot like elk). We had a great time playing farkle and pippi memo (memory).
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| Ellie required lots of jewelry for game night. |
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| John, Ida, and Angie cutting the cake. |
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| Time for Pippi Memo |
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