279 days and 10 hours to go!...

The following day, the 4th of June, was the mythical day - Carla finally turned the all-so-dreaded 30!... After an eventful previous day, I was exhausted and all I could think of was having a long night's sleep... which eventually ended some time around 9 a.m.. Around that time, hubby and mother-in-law enter the room singing "Happy Birthday to You", as I jump up in bed, all puffed up in the face. Apparently, everyone was awake long before they decided to wake me up and breakfast to be served in bed was prepared.

I got to have morning tea in the B.'s clan birthday cup (and that was a first...) and was also served wienerbröd (what seems to be a typical pastry from Vienna, but highly popular in Denmark and its neighbouring countries), which I didn't manage to eat though, as mornings are a particularly though period of the day eating-wise for me.

What awaited me that day was about 18 hours of totally unexpected twists and turns... All had apparently been planned out, but I was left in the dark - and that's something quite hard for me to handle. :-S

After some facial-depuffing, I was all ready to get out of the house and head to the train station, as we were seemingly headed for Stockholm.

Having arrived in Stockholm, mother-in-law decides we should take the subway to wherever-else we are headed to, but hubby disagrees, as it's... just around the corner.

Many many many steps later, we bump into father-in-law, who's just finished work for the day and... as we were already late for whatever it was we would be doing... we took a well deserved coffee break.

Coffee levels restored, we set again, on foot, through the city...

... headed for the boats! Hm!

After a bit of a wait, we step on board of a small boat, headed for Fjäderholmarna (http://beta.stockholmtown.com/en/To-Do/Excursions/fjäderholmarna/1078).

With Miss B. having spotted a couple of Rottweilers on board, there was no rest for the remainder of the traveling group. In the lack of other volunteers, I headed with her to the uncovered part of the boat, to pat the "small" things, who happened to be the sweetest dogs ever.

Many pats later... we set foot ashore, soon to learn that our destination was a restaurant that was full full full, so we had to search for an alternative place to get ourselves fed.

And that's how we had burgers and fries, with this magnificent view right in front of us. But that wasn't all... there was also a happily swimming female Rottweiler named Tisha, that was entertaining us terribly with the occasional showers she'd provide her owner and whoever happened to be around her every time she got out of the water.

A walk around the island was in order... So, along with the really cute handcraft stores, with had so much of nature to enjoy. There seemed to be canadian geese everywhere, with their fluffy offspring in tow.

After the walk and some shopping, it was time to do it all over again... get on the boat, get water sprayed as Miss B. pats the dogs, jump off the boat, walk around the city, get on a train, get on the subway, arrive at the final destination - time for dinner!

The place had a wonderful view...

... was rather calm ...

... and served great food.

What else is there to ask for? :-)

Funny enough, we had dinner at Göteborg in Stockholm... ;-)

And afterwards, what awaited us was some more of those train/subway/car trips back "home"...

Miss B. went crazy with the camera at this point and we have an enormous assortment of images of anything that passed her window... but some of them are actually cute, like this one. :-)

Back home, it was then time for cake - princess cake! :-) And - despite my anti-monarchic ideals ;-) - it was a GREAT cake.

Thanks everyone - all who were able to be present and those who, despite not being so, were there in spirit - for a wonderful day. And, hey!, I'm now admittedly 30 years old! And I'm now taking the official vow of making this decade the best EVER! :-D