In fact, there's something about snow and southern Sweden. The farmhouse family was actually snowed in yesterday. There's enough wind that the snow drifts within a very short period of time and makes it pretty difficult to dig out even when it doesn't look like there's much snow on the fields. Luckily, Erik's younger sister and family live in Malmö (just across the bridge from Copenhagen), so we stayed there last night.
The below zero cold was quite a shock, and since I had sent our winter clothes ahead to Äspö directly from Germany last month, we were absolutely not dressed properly. Don't forget that the difference between midday temperatures in Doha and southern Sweden is about 40 degrees Celsius at the moment! Brrrrrrrrr!!
We had a cozy day which involved putting up the Christmas tree and cuddling up under a blanket while watching the snow fall outside.
The latest addition to the family, Findus, seemed to quite enjoy the snow...
while foster-mother Shannon preferred to keep nice and warm inside.
Erik and Lars decided to brave it and went off to the sauna where Erik found he could take the heat longer than usual. It was the dip in 2-degree-Celsius water that was a little hard to take.
We had a nice evening snack which involved lots of antipasti. Pork!!! We haven't seen that for a while. Later on there was even glögg and pepparkakor! Yummy!
It's such a relief to be out of Qatar for a few weeks. Of course, we're telling our crazy stories over and over. They sound so ridiculous and yet they are oh so true.
Above all, we are enjoying our family, great food, nice wine, oxygen, relaxed driving conditions and SNOW!!!
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