So clearly I am starting 3 months into my trip and will either attempt to catch up as life goes on this season or there might be a few holes here and there.
My Mom, Dad and I arrived in Stockholm early this morning, Nov 16th 08 from Berlin. This is an exciting day for us all as I have never been to Sweden, my dad hasn't been here for 40 years and my mom has also never been here. Her dad, my grandpa, Anders Strom was born in Sweden and moved to Canada when he was 24 to avoid entering the military (94% sure on my details). Getting to come to Sweden was something my mom never thought would happen and to see her excitement and emotions was a pretty cool thing.
After an adventurous trip from my place in the Ghetto of Berlin, transferring trams/trains/S-Bahns to the Airport and arriving at City Centre Stockholm we met up with my mom's cousin Anders who graciously picked us up at the station and took us back to their place for a delicious lunch Bodiel had made for us. Anders is Holgar's son who is my mother's father Andreas' brother's son. Read it again, nice and slow. :-) And Bodiel is Anders' wife, we also got to meet and spend time with their youngest son Filip. It is a pretty amazing experience to meet family for the first time, it took about 4.6 secounds to get comfortable, they are such nice people and so incredibly welcoming.
After tour of their beautiful house, nice lunch we went for a walk in the neighbourhood. Went along the ocean, past a golf course which had a driving range into the ocean... Europe never seems to let me down, everyday something new to experience. The driving range lets you hit balls into the ocean where there are bit areas marked off to allow you to check your accuracy. Pictures will explain better. Anyhow, returned back where shockingly enough my dad passed out as did mom and I and finished our day getting to meet my mom's first cousin Holgar and his wife Kerstin, again incredible people and we enjoyed a "typical Swedish meal". They are hilarious, basically their theory is that everything is typical Swedish as there is no way we would know any different. Super friendly, fun and pleasant people to be honoured to meet and spend time with.
I will be in Stockholm til Wednesday morning and parents are returning to Berlin friday morning. A bit of a rookie here on the blogging but in time... in time...
