Our coming anniversary....

Well, it is official. We have been in Sweden for one year as of May 26th. My, oh my, does the time fly. I have to say the culture shock to MOVE here was intense, but has now worn off. I was walking in the park behind our house this weekend and realized it almost feels like home. We have definintely come full circle and feel this nostalgia in having our "second" summer here. We know what to expect and are looking forward to the great explorarations of the summer months. We visited a gallery this weekend called the Thiel Galleriet. It had great Edvard Munch stuff. He did "the scream".

http://www.thielska-galleriet.se/

Anyways, the point of tellling you that is that it is in this beautiful area of the city called; Djurgarden. It is where the king had lots of land. It was never developed. Now, it is a beautiful park. So, we were there at the gallery , then we mozied down and began walking the park and I was able to suggest to Rob, "hey let's walk to that cafe by the water, that we went to last summer and is so great". He knew, I knew... no maps, no first time in the park, no how far and will the path connect? We just knew... it is so nice to be locals, or at least feel a semblence of it.

P.S. Saniya and Rowan are great. We took them swimming today at an adventure pool. So, cute. They don't use any chlorine here in their public pools. There is a non toxic alternative that they do use, but we are not sure what it is yet... I guess we will know as the summer progresses.

Happy Mother's Day to all you mom's out there.

Yasmiene