Saturday lunch and my handy man

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14 months ago

Finally! Anna and Martin are back in Europe and no one could be happier than I! It felt surreal to meet them outside Amex to give them our key. They arrived safely to the UK on Tuesday last week and we spent four days together, catch up, talking, laughing and trying to remember what we've all done the last 14 months. Trying to remember what we wanted to tell each other, remember feelings we've had and people we've meet. They showed us all their pictures, it looked amazing, it inspired me even more to want to go out travelling soon.  Just being able to take the day as it comes, experiencing new things, new cultures, new people and new places for a few months.
I'd organised for all our friends to get together on Wednesday night so we all met up for drinks at Las Iguanas and a bit later on dinner at the Office. We also had time for movie night, a roast, lunch in the lanes and an Indian take away, do I need to say they'd missed the food?

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Happy Birthday Amy!

Last Sunday was spent with dear friends celebrating Amy's birthday. We all meet up for lunch at the Crown & Anchor in Shorham, everything on the menu sounded delicious, however I am pleased with my choice, Moules frites - mussles in white vine, cream and garlic sauce.
We had a lovely afternoon, chatted away, planned future get-togethers, laughed and ennjoyed our food!

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It started off with beer can chicken and then it just went down hill.

We haven't had a chance to catch up for ages so it was lovely to spend some quality time together. And as we all know, time flies when you have fun and before we knew it, it was bed time! Dinner and drinks turned into deep talk, deep talk turned in to laughter and silliness, which turned into charades and finally Dave and Costa dressing up in ladies clothes. The evening turned into a sleep over and we spent Sunday morning eating breakfast and cheering on the Brighton marathon runners.


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Pics from Sweden

 Breakfast at Stansted and picking flowers.

A little gorgeous princess and the cutest prince.

 Easter lunch and a trip in to town.

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Sofia and Lotta - half way to 50!

The year is 1987, The Simpsons is seen on TV for the first time, Aaron Carter and Lionel Messi are born, Sweden's first soap opera Varuhuset starts, Eurovison song contest is held in Brussels and IFK Göteborg wins the UEFA cup. In the middle of all this Sofia and Lotta were born, 25 years have passed since and on Easter eve it was time to celebrate that these beautiful ladies are half way to 50!

Started the evening with drinks and song rehearsal, it gave us a chance to catch up before heading in to town and the party. We sang our 'home written' song over and over again, didn't really get it to sound as well as we wanted but packed ourselves in to the cars and hoped for the best.

After loads of hugs, introductions and predrinks we were seated at the tables, dinner was served and different games were played whilst devouring the food. Must mention that our table won the treasure hunt!

The evening continued just as well as it started, we danced the night away to Swedish hits, had birthday cake and chatted to old friends.

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Easter in Sweden

Started our trip towards Sweden and an Easter extravaganza on Wednesday night, spent the evening at Stansted (not the best night of my life), arrived in Lidköping on Thursday morning, had lunch and spent the evening looking at old pictures on the projector. Lovely memories and my parents told us stories about the 'olden days'. Friday was packed, met up with the Spjuth's family in the afternoon, it was as cosy as ever to play with the kids and catch up with Frida and John. It's not until you come home and see everyone again that you realise how much you miss them!
Was invited Alexandra's for dinner, had tacos and caught up with the ladies. Loads of laughter, talking and memories. Saturday was the day of the big Easter/ 25 years old party! Had a brilliant night! Sunday was spent with Pializ and my family, went to my Grandma before venturing to Gothenburg and started the trip back to the UK. As always the weekend in Sweden was brilliant, thanks to everyone for making it amazing!