It's been decided, despite a somewhat so-so weather outlook, that we will go sailing on the West Coast....starting tomorrow! Yikes, packing, mead-bottling (we bought flaskor at Ikea this morning), library-DVD-returning....then train to Falun late tonight. Tomorrow, a little six-hour drive to the other coast, then...well, I'll see how it works over here! At least I learned a few words from working at Vasamuseet but...I hope I don't embarrass myself too badly.
Long overdue (and set to be eclipsed by this sailing trip if I don't do it now) are pictures from when we went sailing on Skonaren Vega a few weeks ago in Stockholm's archipelago. It was a cloudy but nice day when we were in Uppsala, and the weather was fine as we walked to Djurgården, but in the last few hundred meters, with the boat in sight, we were overtaken by what felt like a hurricane, with strong winds, driving rain, and even a little bit of thunder! Yikes. Thankfully one of the terribly expensive quay-side restaurants still had its awnings set up, and we hid under there with some Americans and a woman in a wheelchair.
Once it let up a bit, we ran to the boat and made it just in time! It cleared up for our sail around the harbor and long enough for us to eat a little smörgås on the deck, but once we got further out into the archipelago it started to pour again intermittently. We had a glass of wine and read a bit, and wandered out on deck just in time to see the DOUBLE rainbow!
A really special evening with my good friends Tommy and Odd (and family!) on the three-masted schooner.
Pictures to make you jealous below:
Erik hjälper!
Sunny enough to squint.
Egil, patriarch, to the right, and interested passenger to the left.
Odd('s) explanation.
Speaking of which, my friend Lorraine from Mystic is here working at Vasa for a few weeks, living on St. Erik! Varmt välkommen!
We were back in Stockholm on Saturday to meet Lorraine and go to a birthday party for Erik's friend. Turns out Lorraine was coming in Sunday (which I found out Sunday night), but since we were in Stockholm we felt we should eat at Blå Porten (one of our favorite restaurants) and go out to Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (where we had our first date) before heading out to his friend's new apartment (it was a birthday-slash-moving in with girlfriend party). It was a perfect day, which looked like this:
The front hallway of the museum.
Can we live here?
Sitting outside after closing time.
Hemingwaying™ the wine (please see: The Sun Also Rises).
En andra Erik L.
And, because this is taking so long to write, I can also post this, from just a few minutes ago (it's really feast or famine here on this blog):
More after the weekend. And after the weekend, darlingest Sarah and Alex are coming to visit. Yippee!
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