we're home, after an easter weekend in jörn (and some other places). what happened:
*friday: got up early, as i couldn't sleep. left for jörn. stopped in umeå, as tommy had to visit the university for a while. i stayed in the car with the cats, my mp3-player and a wonderfully horrible little book (it's really really nice reading good books in cars, especially when it's raining heavily). tommy gave me a kinder egg, as it was our third anniversary. had dinner in jörn, some kind of salmon-fish that my parents in law had caught themselves. afterwards we had the best coffee i can remember i've ever had.

*saturday: went for a dog-less walk. an old woman came over for dinner. she talked a lot, and told us that her husband was a success in stockholm (he had very nice clothes). went to visit tommy's parents' neighbours, where the "children" (about tommy's age) were also home for easter.

*sunday: church service in jörn. the sun was shining, and we had coffee on the terrace. went to skellefteå.

visited a department store, to buy things we need for the bathtub. as we all know i'm a bad shopper, and i was bored after 15 minutes and just wanted to grab the nearest things, pay for them and leave. so when tommy's father suggested we go to another store, to compare products and prices, i nearly fainted. i was irritaded and bored, tommy was whining and seemed to wish he hadn't given me the bathtub, and the father in law was trying to figure out wich faucet would be the best for us. afterwards i felt sorry for my mother in law, who had to spend time with us... after what seemed like ages we had finally agreed on what to buy (i think my bad temper might have had a lot to do with the result...), and could leave.

went to a restaurant in the middle of the slalom slope. had easter lunch/dinner together with tommys brother, the girlfriend and the two children. met our niece ida for the first time. she looked like a normal baby, and wasn't very much fun at all. after lunch/dinner we went to the brother's home. the nephew oskar is a very nice little person. he likes building little houses of pillows or blankets or stuffed animals or whatever he can find. he also likes having secrets, and whisper quietly in your ear. i didn't understand everything he said, and he didn't understand everything i said, but we had a nice time anyway.

*monday: i stayed home when the others went to another church service in jörn. when they got home we left for a service out in the woods somewhere (one service a day is more than enough for me). we were taken by snow mobiles to get there. the service was in a big cot, with a big fire in the middle. an old couple were singing, and they sounded like a black and white movie. when the service was over we had lunch that was cooked in muurikas, and coffee that was cooked over the fire in the cot. the parents in law bathed in an outdoor "bathtub" with hot water. we left while they were in the bath. when we phoned to tell them we were home they said they had also bathed in a hole in the ice... i would have sticked to the hot bathtub.

and now we're finally home. i saw another couple of cold black birds in the opening in the ice. and it smelled like horse shit when we got out of the car. and very much snow has melted since we left. maybe spring will come this year too, after all.  ¶ 9:16 PM