After a 7 month hiatus, I think it’s about time I started writing blog posts again. Of course, I conveniently took a long break between what was meant to be a ‘series’ of posts about our Eurotrip from last summer. Here’s the final post and hopefully I’ll remember what in the heck we did.

After Erin and John went back to Boston, Mom came to Helsingborg with us for a few days. There was so much that we wanted to do with her, but we only actually did a couple things. First things first, we took my mom on her first trip to Ikea (priorities, am I right?!). She loved it! How can you not? Those little decorated rooms and kitchens are the best! For the record, I’m not being sarcastic. I try to convince Christopher to go to Ikea at any opportunity. Anyways, we bought a pie tin so my mom and I could make a practice pumpkin pie for our Thanksgiving dinner. We ended our trip with an Ikea cinnamon bun and a coffee; it was perfect!

On our one sunny day that Mom was in town, we took her to Sofiero. It’s a beautiful castle just north of downtown Helsingborg where the royal family used to vacation in the summer. The royals don’t hang out here anymore, but the castle grounds are home to one of the largest, most beautiful collections of flowers I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, we missed all of the rhododendrons, but there were plenty of other flowers blooming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also had a lovely dinner at Christopher’s parents house. Christopher’s mom made some kind of stew that I can still remember exactly how good it tasted to this day. It was delicious! We ate my practice Thanksgiving pumpkin pie for dessert and everyone seemed to really enjoy it! For those of you wondering, pumpkin pie is hardly eaten anywhere in the world outside of North America. After dinner, we played some Wii bowling and with no prior experience, my mom crushed us all. The same thing happened to me the first time I played with Christopher’s family, I somehow won twice! Anyone who remembers my CM bowling days knows I certainly wasn’t the MVP. I remember it was practically a miracle if I bowled over 100.

The visit was short but sweet and soon it was time for my mom to head home. I’m so glad she was able to meet Christopher’s family and see where we live!