Happy Midsummer!

It's waaarm! Over 100 degrees (38) is expected in the New York area later today, now it's 95 (35). Then it'll cool down to about 85 (29,5) for the weekend.

We are so happy in our new home. The people we're staying with are nice, it's a cute (and high end) area, I've taken up running again, they let us borrow the car sometimes and it's just all good. The cleaning lady was here the other day, so when we got back from work our room really looked like a hotel room... :-) I know we shouldn't get used to this luxury, and believe me we're not. But we appreciate it for the time being. I've realised I can help out by cooking dinner (the mum doesn't like to cook) so I've taken care of feeding the six of us. Last night, we put some nice bugers on the bbq and served with a feta cheese sallad but we had to have dinner inside since it was still about 30 degrees outside...

Today, Gill and I have ran a few errends for Mary and now Dave and I are off to the beach. We got the beach cards, (yes, it's not free to go to the beach here, you have to pay 5 dollars of some strange reason) hand made turkey subs, some peaches, water and we're ready to go.

Tomorrow is the big holiday of Midsummer in Sweden. Us Swedes usually celebrate the summer solstice with dancing around the maypole, eating a lovely summery dinner al fresco and we're drinking and dancing all night. We don't know yet what we'll do to celebrate here tomorrow, but maybe, just maybe we'll go in to the City... :-)

Glad midsommar till våra familjer, härliga vänner och släktingar! Vi saknar er! /Alex & Dave