Pink food and a sea urchin

Last weekend we had a lovely party

with cousins we hadn't seen for a long time!

It is a special thing to share genes and familymemories!

We had prawns, a social and active kind of food!

In Norway most people know how to peel a prawn

and they are usually served with the shell still on.

On our travel up north the week before, we met

another pink sea creature.

I haven't tried eating sea urchins

I don't know if that is common in Norway!

Put they are fun to look at, and quite pretty!

Harstad

This is the view from our daughters window

at her school far up north of Norway

We wnt to Harstad this weekend to take her and all her stuff

safely up to school. It is more than 1500 km away from where we live,

so we went by car, then plane, then rented car.
What a fantastic place!

The photos will tell ther own tale:

These are the feet of two parents

who just dropped off their daughter at her school

and had to sit in the sun and try not to get overwhelmed

by the urge to go and fecth her again or give her one more hug

before we left.

Slipping through my fingers

I feel like the mother in this ABBA song these days.

My daughter will be going away to a school

far up north of Norway in a couple of days.

We are cleaning out her closets, packing suitcases

Talking laughtng and taking a break

with a game of Yatzy every now and then.

How will it be without her around the house?

Very quiet and strange.

Of course this is all we want for her

going out in the world and embracing it!

It's the way it should be, but it is still strange

and I will secretly be bringing some kleenex

for the way home...

Growing up

Little Chef, not so little anymore!

15 years old

We went to the cabin for his birthday

The menue he chose was ham, gratinated cheesy potatoes, veggies and gravy

We have to keep it simple at the cabin,

not the most fancy presentation, but the young man was pleased!

For dessert

Birthday cake!Ok, Dinkie is little

but these lads are getting so tall!

These are the legs of Little Chefs friends

They are taller than 190 cm both of them!

Our Capri

Once again we have spent a lovely week

at Capri, Strømstad in Sweden

This is our Capri,

as it probably is for many others

We have returned to this place for several summers

The sunsets at Capri is devine!

Little Chef is rowing.
Pink Princesse is enjoying the sun set with Dinkie

The rocky shore

While being there, we had plenty of good grub

The photo isn't giving this fishcake enough credit!

Under a sky like this

you feel humble