No place like home!!

So i'm home now, in my dear hometown in sweden. And there was a white christmas today!! Unbelievable! i haven't seen that in years and years. snow usually  don't arrive until .. christmas day. frost on the ground until then or until like.. new years eve. (For you who doesn't know, Swedes celebrate christmas on dec 24th, instead of 25th.)

I've been really tired though, like some sort of jetlag from Arlanda. The story about arlanda is:

-We flew from oslo to arlanda monday night. we knew that we were gonna spend the night there so we were smart enough to bring blankets in case it would be cold there. First thing we did when we arrived was to eat at mcdonalds -also unbelievable, i NEVER eat at Mcdonalds if i have other options-.  anyway., i ate some chicken burger and after that i had bad coffee and a giant muffin that i had to force myself to eat in the end. Normally i would take the whole thing in one bite., i guess i have trained my sugar addiction away, well, had, it's probably coming back during his week. 

After Mcdonk we started looking for couches to sleep at and surprisingly we foun four red kind-of-couches that we put together. Perfect for movie time, so we unplugged some of the stars that were hanging in the window and we started watching Sunes Jul!  And sometime in the middle of the night we got some company. A guy that had slept on a couch for three hours decided to sit with us and watch sune. he was like an owenwilsonwithdreadsandflipflops-looking guy who had been backpacking in the fillipines or something. He had a lot to talk about and half of it sounded like ., bullshit. But who knows. People do experience crazy thing all the time. Maybe it was true.  

but hunting giant sea turtles? qué?

So., when we got to bored we finally tried to get some sleep. i failed that mission, majorly. I didn't manage to fall asleep until i sat down on my seat in the plane to Umeå., as soon as i closed my eyes i was sleeping like a baby, i didn't even hear any of the safety instructions from the cabin crew.  But then from nowhere someone woke me up just so i could eat the second breakfast. i didn't know what was going on when i opened my eyes, i started thinking that we were landing already. Or crashing. I didn't fall back to sleep unfirtunately.

after landing in umeå i got to the bus station and took the bus to home, there i got another 20 minutes of sleep. yey

This wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't for our traditional dec 23rd party. We gather our entire family (grandparents, aunts, cousins, brothers, sister and all of their dogs) and we eat, drink, play games, and chill. I was kinda out of it most of the time, staring at things just a little bit too long. but somehow i managed to win the 4in1sofa game for my team. 

Then there was night. And then there was this morning. The traditional xmas continues like this: Mom came in to wake me up at ten am,  and i don't even remember the last time i had to fight that much to open my eyes! It was a struggle for sure.

We went to my grandmas house, where the whole family was gathered again., everyone tired from the night before. We ate breakfast , mostly cookies and buns.  Had a small competition about who manages to eat the sugarbuns without licking the sugar away from the lips.  no one won., i think. i sure didn't anywho.

Next step. Grandpa reads a part of the bible, like every year, though no one really cares about the christian part of christmas. it just has to be there according to tradition. i like it, it's cozy like crazy.

Then comes the gift exchange. Everyone has bought one gift to one person. and everyone has a little poem for the gift. Nothing fancy, nothing expensive. i love it, i got something as simple as a mascara from my "uncle". :) someone got a deck of card, someone got a flashlight. Less is more!

The second part of my christmas is a bit more crazy on the gift department., then there's a freaking mountain of gifts! and it takes hours to get done with it. And of course, we have to watch the disney show., no christmas without disney, and Karl Bertil Jonsson. 

So we opened all the gifts and noticed some themes for this year., everyone got socks! And i manage to get 4 scarfs, somehow. but then again i can never have enough of them!

Anyways., it's great to be home! and snow all over the place and freaking cold. As it should be that is. My room looks like it did when i left, only more cleaned up. but i'll take care of that detail in a second, don't worry.

I'm gonna be home for a whole week now., awesome!!! And the plans for tomorrow - Chill! sleep! Eat! take a snowy walk. Chill and so on.! 

lovely!

now it's really late and my mind isn't really working the way it should., so

Good night, and God jul!!!