'Möhippa'

Have been busy living the fast life!  To fill you in: we had 'Swedish National day' on Wednesday so I said to my husband that we should take down all our 'British bunting and balloons', after our Diamond Jubilee Party for the Queen, incase the neighbours thought we were making some sort of weird 'stand'....I don't know if a house would be 'egged' for that sort of thing...probably not...we have really friendly neighbours! A 'Gateau fest' street party had been organised on the day but it got rained off so we will do that on Saturday now! Hope it's sunny so we can get to meet some more neighbours!

Yesterday we had an end of term school grill at Gammlia, (outdoor/indoor museum of Västerbotten culture and Sami life) a lovely place, set in woodland with lots of things for the kids to explore.  After which I was deposited by my family in town for a 'Möhippa' (hen night) - my first one in Sweden. The bride to be got high jacked, dressed up in some colourful disco tat with a pink veil, then made to sing for money in the town centre to earn herself some ride money at the visiting 'Tivoli' in town. She is an excellent singer so earned enough money for all of us to go on the rides! Lots of fun and best wishes to the beautiful bride to be!