2018 Holidays

We travelled back to France for the holidays, catching up with family and also spending time with Jacques and Mahe, who are both not doing great unfortunately...

Ruben and Alexandre were very happy to meet up with their cousins again and to show them how to decorate the pepparkakor.

Siblings and families.

Domi took us to the strange and fascinating exhibition 'On air' by Tomás Saraceno in the Palais de Tokyo. 

The first half of the exhibition was a showcase of spider webs.

At Jacques and Lolo's, enjoying precious time with Jacques.

The boys were happy - happy to receive gifts and celebrate.

On the (long) way to Briancon, trying to keep ourselves busy as the train had a 4 hour delay.

The weather in Briancon was beautiful ! There was still snow on the ground but it was warm and sunny.. It felt like we were coming out of the long darkness of the North. Ruben and Alexandre much enjoyed playing in the garden. They also took ski classes in the mornings and made good progress - Ruben is now skiing quite fast and Alexandre can takes on the real slopes.

Alexandre's home made Santa Lucia crown.

I fell sick with a strep throat and was fully down for about 4-5 days. I just managed to go on two outings in the mountains - nice but too short.

We also met up with Virginie, Eric and the kids - lucky to be able to meet up with them there !

Back in Stockholm, more presents were waiting for us as they would have been too bulky to take on the plane - the 1000 or so (haven't counted but it sure feels like it) police station lego pieces kept Ruben busy for quite a few hours.

And birthday celebrations kept on for a while longer for Alexandre - first with his friends at home!

 With his good friend and upstairs neighbour Heloise.

Alexandre finally received his last and much expected gift towards the end of january actually on February 9th (!), after a long and tortuous circuit through the post system - this was a karaoke mike, complete with music, lights and games, that he had been dreaming about (and his parents dreading a bit, but the sound is luckily not too loud) !
Alexandre waiting for the post office to open to finally get his present.