Christmas impressions 2009

We went to Oskarshamn to celebrate Christmas with Matts' family. We arrived to a snow white and cold town, but on Christmas day it started to rain and everything was just wet wet wet. But then, the temperature crept below freezing once more and we had a thin layer of snow so it was once more beautiful (and really slippery).

Here are some pictures. First, the Christmas tree and some of the gifts. In Sweden, the tradition is that the gifts are placed under the tree and opened on Christmas eve, sometime between the big Christmas dinner, Donald Duck on TV and the dessert.

Matts and his niece were so happy it finally was Christmas eve...

This is the Christmas candy that Matts and I made a few days before Christmas. Yummy! On Christmas eve, Santa came by with some additional gifts.

Matts and I took a walk in Oskarshamn and this is the town seen from one side of the harbor. Oskarshamn is situated right by the sea and from here you can take the ferry to Gotland, the biggest island in Sweden.

Weekend trip to Oskarshamn

This weekend, Matts and I rented a car to go to Oskarshamn. Matts and his grandfather both have birthdays within a week and yesterday it was time to celebrate them both with a delicious dinner. The whole family was there and it was a very nice afternoon. I put on my new dress for the first time and showed off my growing belly for anyone interested - and it sure grew after eating all that good fish and fruit and the homemade cakes...

Blueberries and mosquitoes

Before we left Oskarshamn I spent a morning in the woods with my mother-in-law and my niece-in-law. The woods are full of blueberries this year so after a couple of hours picking the blue delicious berries we had more than enough to start filling up our freezer in Lund. What we also had was a bunch of mosquito bites - I had more than 30 all over my body! But it was so worth it!

Hedgehogs in Oskarshamn

Swedish summer in the garden of my sister-in-law in Oskarshamn. They have some pets running around all over the place... On the pictures you see two hedgehog kids that are playing. The third one stayed closer to it's mum... In the garden there are three, four or even five kids, but we never saw more than three at a time.

The world in pictures by a seven year old

My niece-in-law got hold of my camera and took some pictures...

1. Uncle 2. Mother
3. Fika 4. Hedgehog kid

The photographer herself.