What a great two weeks we have had! It started out with temperatures around 88°F and summer was all over the place.

Johan was away in Vegas for the NAB Show for six days, where DanAds also were nominated in “Best product of the year”. And they won, biggest congrats!!! 👏👏👏

Meanwhile, the rest of us hanged out on Manhattan. I had some lunches with friends, ran down the Hudson, sunbathed on the lawn at the pier and every water fountain along the Hudson River Park opened. 💦

Elvira got a little itchy rash on her hands and feet, so we went to the MinuteClinic and got some meds. This day I also submitted her Quarterly report #3 and I used the sentence “May include but will not be limited to…” in every subject. I have still not heard anything, so hopefully the report is accepted.

At the time of writing, Olle just received an email from “bildningsnämnden” in Sweden, asking him to submit his American grades. He is applying with his final grades from 9th grade, so we´ll see what will happen now…

A couple of weeks (!) ago, our dishwasher broke. A guy came over twice, just to inform that it will be replaced. No one really knows when, though… 😉 So at the moment we punish the dish soap!

Last Tuesday Malin and I had lunch at Björk, always so good food. The day after, Johan came back from Las Vegas and Olle, Elvira and I visited the American Museum of National History and also the Hayden Planetarium and we watched the show “Worlds Beyond Earth” in the Space Theatre. A really fun and interesting day.

On this day, Toffee also came back home – a happy reunion. 🐶

Unfortunately, she must have picked something up on the street or ate some grass, because she had some stomach problems when Andrew picked her up from her dog watcher. He took her to the vet and now everything seems to be fine with our little furriend.

Last Wednesday the Skullmans came! 🥰🥰 They have been in NYC before, so we did almost no sightseeing, but more of our everyday life here.

We filled our days with lots of walking. One of the trips went over Williamsburg Bridge into the hasidic Jewish community. We were stopped in the street by two hasidic women, who told us a little bit about themselves, soo interesting!

Then we dived deeper into Brooklyn for some thrift shopping, or at least to look. Then we strolled down and walked Brooklyn Bridge home.

On Saturday we climbed the Little Island, had take-out lunch from Just Salad, checked out Chelsea Market and Washington Square Park. In the afternoon the Skulls went window shopping on Broadway, and I took a run at the Hudson. In the evening we had a table at Lena, Sébastien is starting to remember us. 😊

Sunday was a great sunny day and we took the A-train up to Lido in Harlem and had a nice lunch. From there we headed towards Columbia University and the whole university was filled with graduating students.

After this, we walked down to Central Park and wandered around in all the blooming greenery.

Happy B-day Oscar, turning 25 yo! 🎈 This day we celebrated with a palatable and delicious dinner at Tamarind, a really nice Indian restaurant in Tribeca.

The next day Cilla, Henke, Oscar and Edde left for Sweden. It was so nice to have them over and we´ll see each other in a few months. ❤️

In the afternoon we took Toff for a walk and also paid the library a visit, and we ended up with at least one new English book for Elvira to read.

I have finally visited a gallery. 🙂 It is located on Walker Street in Tribeca, one of David Zwirner´s four venues in New York. Suz and I went there to see the exhibition “So let us all be citizens”. Really colorful paintings by Bob Thompson, whose life was sadly cut short. After the exhibition we had lunch at Edward´s, a nice diner on W Broadway.

We will keep on being cultural, so in a couple of weeks we will visit a whole bunch of galleries around Walker Street, followed by lunch. Love it!

And of course we often hang out with Toffee. She has even been let into the dog park, and last time she met a new friend there, a 2 yo gentleman named Louis.

I both see Jay the chiropractor, and run my miles on a regular basis. Actually it doesn´t hurt as much as before, so I have big hopes of being fully recovered.

Last Friday Johan and I celebrated our 16-year engagement anniversary at a newly opened Italian, right around the corner of Sullivan and Spring Street. Closer to home is hard to find! Bandone is so new that it almost doesn´t show up on Google… A really cozy restaurant with maybe a little too small dishes, yet delicious and with such attentive and charming staff.

This day Alma came to clean the apartment, so Elvira and I first went to Ground Support Cafe to study and then we went to ‘Essen for lunch (first time and just around the corner). We had some wonderful laughs taking funny pictures and on the way home we played tag – never seen so many happy faces enjoying our game in the street!

_{(Note to self – remember to continuously still try to be spontaneously open-minded)}

Today is Walpurgis night – anyone heard about that in English?! Had to look it up, and there it was – Walpurgis… The thing that really counts though, is that Amos the famous turns 11 today. 😻

So today is April 30 and tomorrow we wake up to one of the best months of the year! Here, May 1 is like any other weekday so the kids have school. Meanwhile, I’m meeting Ilze for lunch at Ladurée in Soho. 🙂

Hmm… after seven months of leaking problems in Elvira´s bathroom, they completed it with a hole in the ceiling, to channel the rising water into her shower drain. The dripping is visible in the picture…?! 😂

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