The past week has been quite fun i would say! hmmm i met both sets of grandparents. one day we went to mormor and morfars summer house and it was so beautiful there. they live right on the beach to a lake or some body of water. its such a swedish house it cracked me up. they are so nice though and i went out on morfars boat and went swimming, its like a little row boat, but it was nice to see the land from the water i guess. we also went on a walk to a bridge and it was so beautiful. we went to this really old church like 900 years old that still had the original paintings in it. the paintings were not so good, but the fact that their like 900 years old is crazy to me. thats was a very good day. oh dad since i know you are probably reading this, i became one with the earth here! i sat in the grass looking at the water for a long time, it was wonderful!

Then over the weekend i went to farfar (ingemar) and farmors house in the south of sweden. they live by a lake so i felt like i was back home. it was crazy when i walked into their house it was all decorated in 70's fashion and the hustle was playing on the radio so i felt like i was in a time machine so cool. ok Ingemar is like 80 years old and is so crazy. he goes out in the forrest like everyday and makes maps. he knows everything about the topography and geology of the forrest in sweden. like there would be a random hump in the earth and he would know exactly why it was there things like that. he also runs in orienteering competitons. we picked fresh blueberries and raspberries. they taste so much better right off the bush. its so cool because you can basically pick anything you want in the forrest and there are tons of berry bushes everywhere! it was awesome to pick berries and then go home and eat them. then the next day i competed in an orienteering contest. me and alice stuck together so we wouldnt get lost. like they just let two girls who know nothing about maps out in the woods to try and find markers, it was a dumb idea, but it worked out ok. it was actually pretty simple, but it was so funny watching all these people just pop out of the most random spots. yeah then when we were done ingemar introduced us to this guy who works for the newspaper, so he interveiwed me and i guess im going to be in the paper! yeah it was pretty awesome basically. i am actually quite surprised that orienteering isn't that big in tahoe, its like the perfect place. dad you should look into it and create a course thing at home. so that was my weekend, i learned alot about the forrest.

and basically for the other parts of the week i hung out with oscars friends and we actually road our bike on the longest pier in europe, that was fun, and now i can say it. we saw inception it makes so much more sense now! and we also went to this beach and swam. it was a pretty good week.

Swedish things i have done!
ate herring (gross)
ate blood pudding (kind of ok)
played Kubb (im ok at it)

Similar things
They bake cakes here! well albin made one and it was so good.
they watch movies alot like my friends!
its cool to actually observe how similar teenagers act throughout the world, we are all the same

other things
i'm being taught the drums and bass! im no good but oscars trying
oh they are refering to me as their sister :)
i taught them the liscense plate game... my bad!
i am covered in bug bites the bugs here are mean!
its a water tower behind the house, tommy, albin, julia, oscar, philip and i went up their one night.
they dont say i love you here, like not in swedish, its so weird to me!

I miss you guys alot, but i am having a wonderful time! I love you!