Dubai by Camilla Ljungström
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
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Monday, April 5, 2010
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Spring is here!
These last couple of weeks spring has come, some days even felt like summer.
A lot has happened in our garden. We've planted a Meyer Lemon tree in a pot and it even got a green lemon. So excited to taste the result.
Yesterday the daffodils (påskliljorna) started blooming. Perfect timing for Easter coming up next weekend.
That's it from Mountain View. Today we're going to a BBQ birthday picnic. Weather looks good so hopefully we'll be able to sit outside ;)
kramar
camilla
Yesterday the daffodils (påskliljorna) started blooming. Perfect timing for Easter coming up next weekend.
The other flowers in the garden:
Our herb garden is starting to come back again. Some herbs died last year, but most of them actually survived both the hot summer last year and the move from pot to ground.
I've also planted vegetables in pots; arugula, lettuce, sugar snap peas, tomato, squash, red bell pepper and red hot pepper. So far I can use the herbs, lettuce and arugula in my cooking.
I've also brought up tomato seedling myself. So far they're pretty small, but hopefully they'll be big enough to give tomatoes this summer.
Just outside our front porch we have these two amazing plants, fredskalla is their name in Swedish, no idea what they're called in English. So beautiful when they're blooming and they seem to keep the same flower for weeks.
kramar
camilla
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Birthday!
Thanks for all birthday wishes and presents!
I had a great sunny and warm birthday. Had a delicious lunch outside at In&Out burger with Jen and Simone. Flower and veggie shopping at Summer Wind nursery just around the corner from the house and I even had time to plant a few flowers in the garden before leaving for dinner.
Joakim had made a reservation at La Folie in San Francisco. Superb food and wine. It was a lot of fun to finally go there.
Mille and Jocke
For everyone who's waiting for Sydney and New Zealand pictures, I'll try to upload some later this week!
I had a great sunny and warm birthday. Had a delicious lunch outside at In&Out burger with Jen and Simone. Flower and veggie shopping at Summer Wind nursery just around the corner from the house and I even had time to plant a few flowers in the garden before leaving for dinner.
Joakim had made a reservation at La Folie in San Francisco. Superb food and wine. It was a lot of fun to finally go there.
Mille and Jocke
For everyone who's waiting for Sydney and New Zealand pictures, I'll try to upload some later this week!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Touched down in SFO
We're back in the US after a 14 hour flight from Auckland. Here's Sunday morning and it feels kind of strange since we left Auckland Sunday evening.
Location:International Terminal Departures,Millbrae,United States
Friday, January 29, 2010
Coffee in Devonport
We're in a suburb of Auckland. Arrived this morning. Sitting on a cafe waiting for the ferry over to Auckland.
Location:N Wacker Dr,Chicago,United States
First morning
Yesterday we landed in Auckland, New Zealand. We met Markus and Åsa on the airport and together we picked up the motorhome/RV. Right now we're sitting inside having breakfast.
Today we're driving up north. The goal is to reach the nothern tip of the island.
Kramar
Jocke and Mille
Today we're driving up north. The goal is to reach the nothern tip of the island.
Kramar
Jocke and Mille
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Happy 2010 everyone!
The first month of the new year has almost passed. I keep wondering where it went.
During Christmas we had my family visiting for three weeks. We spent Christmas Eve in the new house with Ashley as company. We had the traditional swedish Christmas dinner with ham, herring, meat balls, gravlax (salmon) and homemade lemon snaps. Everything was so tasty.
Every day there was something new happening, either some work on the house or sightseeing, or both. We drove down to San Simeon and Hearst Castle.
I think this made us all think of what a summerhouse can look like.
The day after we left for vacation in sunny O'ahu, Hawai'i.
The first day was cloudy and perfect for us to get used to the warm weather. We drove to the East side of the island. This picture was taken on the first beach we went to. On the way back to Honolulu we stopped at a macadamia nut farm. They had all different kinds of flavored macadamia nuts; honey, onion and garlic, coffee and caramel. At this place I also got to crack a macadamia nut open. Using a rock and something to put the nut on, it wasn't hard at all.
During our stay in O'ahu we got to see almost everything on the island. We did five hikes; non-swimable waterfall, through a botanical garden to a waterfall, to a lighthouse, up the crater of Diamond head and along the Western side of the island to Kaena Point.
Everyone except Anna and Mats spent a full day (New Year's Eve) at Pearl Harbor. We got there at 6.30 in the morning and we were kicked out of the submarine museum at 17.00 (5pm) when they closed for the day.
After a long day at Pearl Harbor we were ready to celebrate the new year in Honolulu, but first a swim at the beach at sunset.
Dinner with umbrella drinks before counting down to the new year at the beach. In Hawai'i they count down the last three minutes before the the clock hits 00.00. This is done by setting of one firework every minute during the last three. We watched the fireworks on the beach in front of the pink hotel in Waikiki.
Let's finish with the animals we say during our trip.
Humpback whales playing.
Sea turtle resting on the beach.
That's all from Christmas and New Years 2009.
Tomorrow night Joakim and I leave for a 1 week trip to Sydney and New Zealand. In New Zealand we're going to meet up with Markus and Åsa (a coworker of Markus). I'll try to update, but I can't make any promises.
kramar
Camilla and Joakim
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