Moved into the city and Swedish Crawfish

It is beautiful now when it is not raining.Mornings are cool and chilly, the air is crisp and you get that sense of fall just being around the corner. The air is fresh. I do not miss the humidity at all that we had in Alabama. The muggy weather and feeling sticky as soon as you took a step outside. Here the apples are ripe now in peoples yards. There are so many different kinds of apples. My parents also have apple trees in their yard. They have two different kinds but both are classified as summer kinds. Then there are fall apples as well as winter apples. It is wonderful to stand under my father’s apple trees. I also took some more pictures from my parents yard with many different kinds of flowers in bloom. August is a wonderful month with summer still lingering but fall just around the corner. I hope September will be nice and full of crispy but clear days with blue sky and sunshine. That kind of fall weather is my favorite.

Poor C caught a cold. I hope I won’t catch it and that he is feeling better soon. Now we have moved inte C’s aunts condo in the city. So now we are practicing compact livning. This is a small apartment of about 45 square meters or 450 square feet. It is tiny! It has one bedroom and one livning/diningroom and a kitchen. There is a table in the livningroom so it is also here that we sit to eat. Well it has all we need. We arrived with our suitcases and some more stuff that we got. We also had to go grocery shopping before we arrived here. Kind of major and basic grocery shopping when you have to start out with everything as you have nothing, nothing in the pantry, no cleaning supplies ect. Well I just got us what we will need for the next two weeks as we are soon moving again and we don’t want to move more than we have to. Moving is exhausting enough as it is on it’s own.

We went over to my parents place Sunday and had crawfish the Swedish way (not spicy as the Louisiana crawfish but equally good in their own way). We took the train back into the city in the evening. When we reached the Central Station and I looked at the people rushing to their destinations I could not help myself from laughing out loud. The difference was so stunning between Alabama and Stockholm. Here people walk fast. In Alabama people walk slowly all the time. I felt like a freak there rushing around in my pace. In Alabama people seem to just have all the time in the world all the time. Here in Stockholm everyone walks fast that is just it.

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This is what the Swedish milk and buttermilk look like. Here they are sold in boxes like this of 1 liter. The little red cow is the symbol for Arla cremery which is the leading and most well known creamery of Sweden.

This is what our tiny bedroom looks like. The bed is not even queen size so right now one of us sleeps in the bed and the other in the couch. We take turns. When we move to the other place around the 10th of September hopefully we will get a larger bed because this is just too small for me. I am used to our king size bed.

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This is the kitchen and then the living room.

This is another picture of the living room. Here C is sitting with his computer.

Today we went over to the Karolinska Insitute where we will be working. I wanted to figure out where I am to go so that I find my way here on Wednesday. We had planned to take our bikes here but when we were to leave it was raining so heavily that we had to surrender and take the buss. It has been raining everyday almost since we arrived about a week ago. We looked at each other and wondered if this idéa of moving back was the best in the world after all. I think that we will have to expect this roller coaster of emotions for some time.