February 4, 2020
It was tougher to say goodbye to my sister this time,
but luckily we live in a time where we can make calls with video
// above: Mila, 1.5 week old //
My trip back to the states was pretty easy overall. My parents drove me to Malmo (there were no trains that early in the morning), 20 min train ride from there, I arrived at the airport two hours before my flight, my check-in was the quickest ever, I bought a cortado and croissant at EspressoHouse and read my book until it was time to go through the American security. Boarded the plane and once again I had empty seats next to me, half the plane was empty. I watched a bunch of movies, slept a little bit and then we arrived early.
I spent maybe 25 seconds (!!) in security at Newark Airport!! I’m never ever getting rid of Global Entry! But, even if I was the first person to get through, I was still one of the last to leave because of course my bag arrived dead last. I walked over to the exit security, stood in this looong line and after a few minutes I finally saw that there was a Global Entry exit there as well (people had been blocking the sign), took me maybe 15 seconds and I was through. Awesome! But, again, bad luck. My taxi driver ended up driving the wrong way or something and didn’t pick up his phone when calling or texting, so I probably stood there waiting for +40 minutes when it first said 4 minutes. Ride home was smooth though, took about an hour and I was home around 4 pm (landed 1:30, so not too bad anyway considering).
Once I was home I was just exhausted. My sweet husband had dinner ready, and after a shower and eating I fell asleep for a few minutes on the couch during the SuperBowl. Forced myself to be awake for the Halftime Show – JLo & Shakira, of course I had to watch that! – and then I went to bed and could barely understand a word my husband was saying, I passed out. And I had a wonderful nights sleep.
All of yesterday I just walked around in our apartment and felt pure love to be home. I missed my boys a lot during my trip. Only 11 days gone but it was still hard, so nice to be home again. And before I left I had been organizing and cleaned out stuff so everything was tidy, bright and a bit minimalistic, just the way I like it:)
I got up early this morning to go get my monthly blood test. Hahah, the nurse must have been tired cause she put the needle in without the tube. She grabbed the tube and poked me again, probably gonna end up with a bruise now, but whatever, my arm has been through a lot already, it’ll survive:)
Thor helped me unpack, not very helpful though, just wanted to sleep in the suitcase 😀 
Finally some sun after a week of dark clouds and rain in Sweden
At our hotel
We saw many interesting houses along the coast
Castillo de San Marcos
Calamari, fried avocado and tuna tostada
Morning meeting
Warm mini donuts, Jim got an ice coffee and I got a cappuccino 
We ended up going to the airport quite early,
NYC at night seen from the plane, always a beautiful sight 
We took a taxi to the south part of the river and got a coffee at Southern Grounds
The view of downtown, seen from south of the river
Beautiful sunset, very colorful
Full moon, called Snow Moon. It was so big that night, Feb 8th
