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Good Morning! My husband and I are in Sweden. I couldn’t write about it before because the trip was a surprise for my dad and I didn’t want to risk him reading about it:) 
We landed in Copenhagen on Friday around noon. We spent the day there, stayed for a night, took the train over to Sweden and up to Falkenberg early Saturday morning. Our original surprise plans had to change for different reasons. So my mom picked us up at the train station and drove us to their house. She walked in and said hi, I said hi and then Jim said hi. My dad had been told that my mom was going to her sister to pick up some stuff so he thought it was my aunt and her husband who said hi. He came down the stairs and just stood there staring at the two of us for several seconds. Eventually he understood that it was us. He was in shock all day, haha, so fun!
The party we had planned to have on Saturday had to be pushed to Sunday. We got him out of the house and set up all the stuff. My sister, her guy and his kids came over and finished setting it up. My dad had no idea and was once again surprised. Very successful weekend. 

Yesterday we did some errands in the town. I got a haircut, I went to fix something at the bank, we had fika at EspressoHouse were I met an old classmate that I haven’t seen since high school, went shopping for some small things in different stores, went grocery shopping and then my mom drove home while we had fika again with my friend Jeanette.
Today we had planned to take the train to Gothenburg, but Jim didn’t seem too excited about it, it’s going to be cold up there plus it’s nicer there in the summer, so, we decided before going to bed last night that we are not going. So we’ll see what we end up doing today. 

We are back from Charleston. We had an amazing weekend away. It rained on Friday but both Saturday and Sunday was really nice and we had a good time.
Less nice was the lack of sleep. We stayed in a hotel a bit outside the downtown area, just a whatever hotel, a place to sleep basically. We went to sleep before 10 pm on Friday because we had been at the airport early in the morning and we wanted to get up early on Saturday to enjoy the better weather plus we had an appointment. At 1am a family that stayed next door to us came “home” and their kid was so LOUD! It sounded like he/she was having really fun so if it was in the middle of the day I would have loved listening to all that laughter but at 1am with paper thin walls, it was not fun! He/she was scream-laughing and like jumping around on all the furniture for maybe half an hour. Eventually the kid seemed to have gone to sleep but then the parents turned on the tv and had it on all night long.
The next night we were both exhausted. What sounded like a whole football team came to their room above us and practiced being a herd of elephants. One person was up elephant’ing at least once an hour all night long. Right before midnight we heard people next door coming back. The kid was quiet but the damn tv was back on all night. And then they had an alarm clock that turned on at 5 am that escalated 5 stages (for about 4-5 minutes) until they turned it off. Then they used the shower for maybe an hour. When you are tired everything sounds so much louder. It was horrible. 
I think I slept for maximum five hours all weekend, and I didn’t sleep much the night before we went either (I never do before travel). Guess if we are tired. Yesterday I was a complete zombie. Today is a little bit better but not much. If I don’t get 8 hours of sleep per night, I don’t function that well. Everything I do these days are in slow motion. Posts from our weekend and maybe a video will come up…eventually, haha. Right now I need a nap.