There's nothing more beautiful

Before we arrived in Sweden, June was going down in history as the one of the wettest and coldest June's on record. It rained the first day we were here and then that was the end of that.

We have had a week and a half of beautiful weather! It's been pretty hot, for being here, with almost 86 degrees, but clear blue skies and pleasantly cool nights. Thank god for that since there's no A/C (Installing a/c would be a very costly investment for the two days/year when it's needed.). We sleep with all windows open and I try to create a cross draught (is that what its called?), but that comes with another problem; The fact that it gets light at 3 am and that the sun rises around 30 minutes later! We have shades in our bedroom, but in order to get the kids to no go bonkers at 5 am, we really need to keep all light sources to a minimum. We have put Sven's bed in the walk in closet, which, with the small window covered, is the darkest room by far. And this far it seems to work, he is basically sleeping until 8 am or so, so no complaints.

Anyways, I wasn't going to write about closets, because there really isn't much more to say about them, a closet's a closet, but I was going to write about how beautiful the Swedish summer can be. Perhaps you have to be born into it, and the long dark winter that preludes it, but to me there's just nothing more wonderful than Sweden this time of year. Everything is fresh, lush, green and just bright. People are happier and Stockholm is breath taking with all the water glimmering, sail boats and oh yeah, all the Russian and easter European tourists. They glimmer too. Perhaps not as crisp as the ocean, but with all the (fake) bling bling they put on they're quite a site too :-).

Oh and just so no one thinks I'm lazy: My spell checker doesn't work in blogger. Don't know why, but it's on strike. So sorry.