Finally back in Sweden…what a nightmare to get home…

We’re back in C-O-L-D Sweden! We should have landed in Stockholm yesterday afternoon but something happened with the plane just when we were leaving Alicante so we had to step out from the airplane and wait, and wait, and wait…we waited for six hours and then got the message that we wouldn’t leave until two in the morning so they took all 170 passengers to two hotels where we stayed until the bus picked us up at midnight. Nice arrangement from the company and a very nice hotel but hey come on…two in the morning when traveling with five kids is a nightmare. Our kids are well behaved and very patient but I really felt sorry for them when we woke them up after just two hours and took them to the airport. Casper slept the whole flight back home and when we came to our house eight in the morning we went to bed and slept to two in the afternoon.

At three today I took Casper to the doctor to get some medicines for his very bad coughing. He got loads of it the poor thing. I really hope it works! Still no improvement even though the medicines are strong but hopefully they will help soon.

Home for five days now before leaving to budapest on Monday. Will be nice. Off to bed, still exhausted after the very long day yesterday.

More pics from Spain

At Habaneras shopping

My fathers wife was very happy about the things she shopped while we had coffee

After Habaneras Fredrik made us all a lovely three courses dinner at my fathers place

On Saturday we went to Benidorm to go to Terra Mitica

Four tired kids at the airport in the middle of the night…

El tired ninos…

El tired familyos

Long day yet again

Another three days has passed here in Espana and I don’t wanna go home to Sweden at all!!!! I wanna stay here, relocate to Spain and never see snow again *s*.

Going back to Sweden on Monday. Might go down to Gothenburg and visit Cicci and Noah in the end of next week.

Here’s a lot of pics from the last days…

The kids have more than four ice creams per day here in Spain *s*

Casper got a new haircut, not a day to early!!!

After Casper and me it was time for daddy…all had the same hairdresser

Not many rules at El Paraiso that we didn’t break

El Rancho

There’s nothing you can’t find in my step-mom’s purse…water, two perfumes, one mirror, a brush, one big calendar, one shoehorn and a LOT of other things. Not the nail file I requested though.

While we were waiting for the dinner we watched the horse school where a woman fell of her horse and landed so bad that she laid on the ground for more than half an hour before the ambulance came. When they made an ultrasound they also found out she was pregnant which she didn’t know.

Sooo nice out on the ranch in the middle of the night

It have been a VERY warm week

Shopping at Habaneras

Kim

Agneta was very happy about her shopping

We think Cas is a little bit in love with Li. Here he is fixing with her hair while she plays on his Nintendo DS (which he wont let anyone else do)

Dinner at dad and Agneta which Fredrik cooked for us. Lovely dinner!!!

Today we went to Terra Mitica in Benidorm

Me and Vilja went to the small amusement park where they had stuff she could try

Kim didn’t like the big roller coaster while I had a total blast…

Fredrik liked it a little bit more even if the both of them are chickens *s*

Time to say good bye to Terra Mitica…

On our way back from Benidorm we ate at Burger King…Casper was so happy they had Tranformers Kids boxes.

In the middle of the tour…

I’m in Spain for eight days. Didn’t think I got enough traveling with all the EPT’s (yes I do…it’s a joke) so I decided to go to Spain to see my father and his wife with Casper. When we told this to my friends Kim and Fredrik they decided to join us. They rented a nice big apartment like 15 minutes walking for my dad’s place in the central of Torrevieja outside Alicante. Me and Casper arrived on Sunday while “the family” of four kids arrived on Monday. Since none of them have a driving license I’m their driver for this week and we rented a big bus for nine people that can take us all around. On Monday morning I went to pick it up and then went to the airport 35 minutes from here in Alicante to pick them up.

The last two days have been spent at a pool called Paraiso and eating tons of lovely food. I’m not kidding if I say I must have put on at least a kilo by now and more to come before we leave. I’m to tired at the mornings to go out with Kim and run, shame on me. Tomorrow we’re going beck to the same pool but at two o’clock me and Casper is going with dad+A to the hair dresser to get a haircut. I’m not really in need of one but Casper is baaad. Haven’t cut his hair since we went to Spain last time which was in July.

On Saturday we’re planning to go to Benidorm (1,5 hour driving) and Terra Mitica, the amusement park. Nothing else planned really, we do it like the Spanish people and say “manana manana”. We go back to rainy and cold Sweden on Monday. Hopefully I will give you guys some more updates before this (for the Swedish readers: I update this one every day but to lazy to do them both).

Here’s some pics from the last days…

Cas at the airplane with his math books…they haven’t started with math in school yet but he’s really interested in it so we bought his some books and he manages to do everything in them without any hesitation what so ever…

We went up four in the morning so he fell asleep EVERYWHERE – here on the beach having lunch

The week started with very bad weather but high humidity

Picked “the family” aka Kim, Fredrik, Li, Thyra, Vilja and Sidney at the airport in our BIG rented bus. We had to stop twice though the kids we’re ill and threw up – yikes

Father and son

Thank you god for giving us Nintendo DS

The kids were very fascinated by the living lobsters at Carrefour

After the loooong food shopping we had a little “coffee time” with A LOT of sweets

Sid seems to love Spain

At the beach walk

First day was a VERY long day for the kids

Time for ice cream

The BIG bus! Do you see the parents in the front seat with the “ugly fingers” up? Fredrik is like a big child and when I drive the funniest thing he can come up with is to turn the warning signals on…Kim on the other hand always turns them off and tells him how childish he is *s*

More sweets

Another tapas dinner

“Eat up your food or else…”

Casper in my cardigan, just a little bit to long

Cold kids waiting for lunch

Me in my little Stars cap

The first paella since we arrived to Spain…Kim had one today

“Fuck you right back” mo ha ha haaaaaa

Los kids+los pool

Time for shopping at Habaneras

First we had some ice cream

Very happy mom who got the biggest ice cream of them all

The dad got a little bit of tasting before it was empty

Happy baby!

Oh poor Fred, did you pee in your pants? Maybe it was me with a bottle of water who knows

No problem to go shopping with five kids as long as you bring Nintendo DS

Tomorrow it’s no more brat look for Casper with his very loooong hair. Here in his new outfit from Zara. He also got some cool hoodies and other stuff.

After another nice tapas dinner tonight (at a old fashion tapas place, not the tourist crap they serve at the beach) we went to have some coffee and the kids got some more ice cream. When we were done I had NO CLUE where I parked the bus so we had to walk around looking for it for fifteen minutes.

Lazy bichhhh

I’ve been to lazy, or actually I haven’t had time to blog here for a long time cause of my other three blogs.

Last time been spent with poker. Either I’ve been blogging from live tournaments or I’ve been at home with Casper (and tried to play as much poker online as possible). Yesterday I came home from a loooong week in London. It was a great week but very busy. I put a lot of pressure on myself lately to give my readers a nice blog from the tournament area. I hope I succeed

First days in London was spent at Empire Casino watching the WSOPE. A lot of fun railing and so nice to not have a lot of pressure on me and that I was able to put down a lot of time to take great pictures. On Tuesday it was time for the welcome party with PokerStars at the night club Café de Paris. A nice evening but a little bit too late so the first day of the tournament I was soooo tired. The week continued and finally we had a great final table to cover. Three of my favorites were on it and one of them won!! Gooo Michael. The day after it was time for the highroller’s FT and this time another favorite player won: Jason! Two great guys with two well deserved victories. WD WP GG!

Came back to a V-E-R-Y cold Sweden. Spent the whole night in the couch watching tv and talking on the phone. Today I’ve spent it the same was as yesterday but as for tomorrow I will try to not sleep all day long and actually do something. The plan is to take Noelia and her youngest daughter to go curtain shopping. I don’t need any right now but she does as she just moved here to suburbia five minutes walking from me. It’s so nice with two of my closest friends close. Kim and Fredrik lives five minutes the other way

I miss my little ghost. Will pick him up from his father on Saturday and on Sunday morning we’re off to Spain for eight days vacation. Can’t wait!! We will stay with my father who I will try to help setting up a wireless network to. It’s nice for my family I used to be a support technician before this *s*. We arrive on Sunday, Kim&Fredrik and their four kids arrive Monday.

Back to the couch and watch all the new downloaded episodes of all my favorite shows.

Star wars

My son is in a Star Wars-period. This really showed when they had a school project to make their own book

Shame on me

Yeah I know! Sooo sorry for the lack of updates but my life been very occupied with other stuff like redecorating the apartment (repainting the living room, painting doors and a lot of other stuff). This weekend was spend to celebrate my birthday and Cicci came and visit. Overall a really nice weekend with a lot of great gifts and good food. We also played some Wii (videos uploaded on Facebook).

Casper started school two weeks ago and he loves it and made himself a lot of new friends. I was really happy to watch him today when I came to the schoolyard and saw him in the middle of a bunch of boys. Everyone was looking at him while he described something. He’s a little bit disappointed that he still doesn’t know how to read or do math but I tried to tell him that that’s stuff he learn soon enough.

My friend had a surgery one week ago and it seems like it wasn’t cancer and we keep our fingers crossed until we hear what the results say. He’s one of the best guys on earth so he doesn’t deserve to be ill.

Thats right, almost forgot…I’m buying a new car. My old dear Mazda is great but I want a small car that I can park everywhere in town. This one is to big when trying to get a parking spot. I’m looking on Toyota and Huyndai. The later one is a environmental car which is to prefer.

Back to Sex and the city on TV…need to go to bed soon. Up sooo early those days to get Casper to school.

Wiikend

This weekend we played Wii, had a lot of friends over and then I’ve made some major improvements on the apartment. Dad came over on Friday helping me getting two shelf’s up in the bathroom. The few things left on the apartment now is the living room that needs to be colored…or might say uncolored because I’m making it all white. Was thinking of having someone doing it for me but decided to do it myself instead. Good exercise. About exercise I now work out in front of the telly and Wii Fit every day. So nice to be back in the healthy life with no soft drinks, no junkfood and overall normal. Only for a month though…then it’s back to business…what sort of business it will be I’m not sure of at the moment though because I have a decision to be made or actually I’m also waiting for other decisions to be made before I can decide. Complicated and everything not clear at the moment so I prefer not to share anything yet.

I’m planning to buy a car. Thinking of a environmental car. I found a cute small one but it will take months to get it delivered.

Pics from the weekend can be found in the Swedish blog (unixangel.wordpress.com). Some funny videos are uploaded at Facebook if anyone’s interested.

Home sweet home

Please send me back to the sun in Spain…in Stockholm it rains A LOT. Not nice at all. I know I’ve been a lazy blogger here but haven’t had time to blog everywhere SRY! I uploaded a bunch of pics at facebook. Off to sleep as soon as the rest of them is up. Going to try some new cars out tomorrow. Need a new one. Want a small cute car. The one I have is way to big in town even though I love it.

Spain was greeeeeat. Sooo nice to spend some time with the boys and Cicci. I think I talk for the four of us saying it was a great trip overall. We’re already planning to go back next year. Very nice to stay in my dad’s apartment. It has everything, it’s central and with them living there half the year we had telephone, internet, Swedish TV (which we didn’t use though)…

I really hope this wasn’t the end of the Swedish summer because I didn’t get any of it and it’s my favorite time of the year. So much nice places to visit and lovely restaurants to go to. Tonight we went to Kim and Fredrik and had the first crayfishes this year. Very niiiice

Ah well…time to sleep. Xxx

Benidorm

Today we went to the Benidorm to go to the amusement park Terra Mitica. A looooong day but a lot of fun. Here’s some pics…

With the mom’s european sunbathing on the terrace the kids had something funnier to do…youtube is very popular at the moment

At Terra Mitica…me and Cas

This is just the entrance…Terra Mitica was HUGE

First roller coaster we took…

Second roller coaster which only me and Casper took…got VERY wet

Another one…a lot of one’s with water

We left the kids to try some adult one’s…this was scaaaary

We also tried this made in wood

The kids at the restaurant…with their Ipod’s, as usual…if they aren’t playing Nintendo DS

Mañana mañana

Dad recommended a Swedish restaurant to us tonight and it seemed like a good idea when all the Spanish ones only seems to serve pizza, pasta and salad.

We took the car to the restaurant called “Svensken på hörnet” (Swede on the corner) who changed name to “S1″. They we’re full but recomended “S2″ (no this is not a joke) a little bit further down. Same kind of restaurant with Swedish staff and a nice menu. This means that we now have three Sweidhs restaurants in walking distance (yes we are lazy and took the car) from the apartment. The restaurants also seems to be popular when we saw them send away a lot of guests because they we’re full.

The food was ok even though the fish we had as main course could have been a little bit better, to much sauce. As I just started to cough and and sputter because of one of the fishbones got stuck in my throat Cicci informed me that the fish contained bones. It took me five minutes to reply “I know that NOW”. Ha ha ha!

The kids were great at the restaurant. With one Ipod each they were maintained during the hours we spent there

Spanish people are strange. This is a fact. 60 year old people are bitter and yells as soon as they get the opportunity. If someone blocks the sidewalk, if someone takes to long paying in the supermarket or maybe if they think you drive to fast even though you’re under the speed limit. Yes they yell, show you the hand…

They cannot drive…AT ALL. They haven’t learned what the signs are for. They don’t care if they are the ones who should stop or if they have precedence or not. This is something we’ve learned since we started to drive around ourselves. Yesterday one girl almost ran into us on the parking lot outside the supermarket. As she got nervous she backed her car into another one and left it with a big bump. She didn’t care about it and just left the parking lot a few minutes after. Today Casper learned what the “bad finger” is for. A guy almost ran into the car as he was leaving his parking spot and out in the way. When I didn’t immediately threw myself at the brake and instead went by him he started to horn at me and Cicci horned back (even though I was driving). When he also put on the full light on his car we had enough, pulled down both front windows and showed him the finger and said “TOMTE” (like idiot in Swedish but actually means Santa…popular word around poker players). Casper of course wanted to know what the finger meant and instead of lying we told him but he now also knows that he cannot never, ever use it without me getting angry.

We just finished a backgammon session (like every single night and day since we arrived). Tomorrow we don’t have anything planned yet. Might be a trip to Murcia at night and sun during the day…who knows we’re on vacation *s*. Casper also got a little bit burned in the sun today so I want him to take it easy in the sun tomorrow (even though he doesn’t seem to be bothered at all).

Time for bed. GNGN.

xxx from Spain