My busy summer: A visit from my british friend!

Gawd dammit, my life! I'll get to THAT little issue in a post or two, but first...

The visit of the ever awesome snowstormskies!

I don't see it, but apparently visiting me is a lot of fun. ruchirahni said the same thing when she visited. :-)

snowstormskies was here last year during the summer, for about 6 or 7 days. This year, she stayed for 8 days. Not counting the days she was flying. It was AMAZING!

We didn't do any HUGE or AMAZING things this trip. :-) Mostly just hung out... shopped a bit... and enjoyed talking together.

There were two 'big' things we did though!

We went to visit Läckö Castle, which is ALWAYS a gorgeous gorgeous place! My favorite castle, to be quite honest. I have a thing for the ceilings there, for some odd reason. *lol* The artwork on the ceilings are somewhat mindblowing, because... you know... it's on the ceilings. ;-) And they're from the 1600's. So impressive!

We spent the entire day there and in a tiny fishing village close by called Spiken. All in all a very very lovely day!

Another thing we did was to meet up with another TH fan that I'd found out lived close by. Like, REALLY close by! In the same city as all my relatives, basiclly. So about 1½ hours drive away from here. So we packed all of us in the car and went to see her! Since all FIKA-places were close on a Sunday we then continued to my mom's and spent the day there. A bonus was that my mom got to hang out with Alexandra and vice versa. Alexandra really loves her grandma, so win-win!

LitenSpindel / Zarlina was a lovely lovely woman! Was a bit weird to speak about TH in swedish at times, but it was also a lot of fun to know that a diehard fan is that close by. We mostly kept to english though. :-)

And my mom overfeed us as per usual. X-D

Talk about visiting people, we also visited my lovely brother! snowstormskies claimed that my mom lived very much in the middle of nowhere. At this, I laughed. Because my brother REALLY lives in the middle of nowhere. He can't see his neighbours, for example. They're that far away. And it's only woods, fields and cows around his house, basically.

snowstromskies was very convinced. *lol*

My brother spoiled us with lovely FIKA, of course. He is great at baking, believe it or not, so it was DELICIOUS!

We also had a movienight with my best friend spicehobbit. Or whatever to call it. Since we watched 50 Shades of Greay. AND OMG IT WAS SO HORRIBLE! Me and spicehobbit made sure to get good and drunk while watching it to even stand it. snowstromskies doesn't drink so she was screwed. And not in the good way. Really not.

What stood out mostly to me, apart from the creepiness and stalker stuff and all other failures... Was that the main characters (and the actors) had NO chemistry WHAT SO EVER! WTH? This is supposedly to be kinky romance... It would help (at least a little) if the main characters at least looked like they wanted each other. Now it just looked like they'd do anything to be somewhere else.

So much fail. I wouldn't have watched it if it wasn't for my awesome company, just saying.

Another thing, not a huge thing maybe, but still... We alos had a spa-day. Which was a bit complicated, since the spa at the hotel was very booked, and they were short on staff during the summer. Every time we tried to go there it was either closed, fully booked or there were some other issue.

Troublesome.

The day before she left though, we went there. No treatments, but we DEFINLTY enjoyed ourself in the spa's relaxing area. So so SOOO nice!!!

Then I drove her to the airport and there was lots of hugging and a selfie no less before she borded and was gone.

For this time. She sounds determined to come visit again next year. She's welcome to! It is really a thrill to have her here!

This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.