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God
Jul! This is a little Chrismas Greeting page instead of Christmas cards. Iīm aware that itīs a bit late but itīs better than none at all right?
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 Here
we are - family and friends around the table. Real cozy. This year we
were more people than usual. Except my family my motherīs aunt and
three of my japanese friends (Tsuyoshi, Ayako and Kayo) were there too.
The more the merrier as they say.
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 My
brother Johan and Tsuyoshi put together a gingerbread house which
Tsuyoshi had designed. It was great. |
 After
some decoration the beauty looked like this! |
 Johan
spent a lot of time writing Christmas rythmes on his parcels. |
  In
the evening we played a game. I have no idea what it is called but it is
quite fun sometimes. |
 Here
is the Andersson siblings! My sister Anna, me, and Johan. |
 Some
delicious Swedish Christmas dinner! I love it! |
 I
just canīt stop eating until Iīm completely stuffed. There are so many
things and everything tastes so good. |
 Here
is the Christmas tree with packages and a traditional straw goat under
it. |
  
Christmas dance! I put on an old vinyl Christmas record and we danced like I havenīt danced since a was a little kid. |
  The
famous dance "små grodorna" ("the little frogs").
These are the dance moves when you sing "...no ears, no
ears..." and "...no tails, no tails...". It is a
must-try! |
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 Of
course we watched the Disney Christmas program (the same program has
been every year for the last 38 years). And a little later
"Karl-Bertil Jonssons Julafton" ("Karl-Bertil Jonssons
Christmas Eve"), a great swedish cartoon written by the great
comedian Tage Danielsson in the seventees. While watching it... |
 ...Santa
Claus and his twin showed up on a surprise visit! Everybody were
surprised and wondered who had planned this. They turned out to be my
sisterīs childhood friend and her sister. |
  When
the surprise Santas had left we started with the presents. There was a
lot of great presents but the one that without any doubt made us all
laugh the most was a fish on a board that moved "danced" and
sang two songs - in Chinese! |
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 The
next day (the 25th) we went down to the lake and took pictures and had
fun on the ice. The ice was just 2 or 3 days old so most of us was a bit
afraid to go out too far in the beginning, but my father and especially
my brother jumped and ran around without going through the ice, so after
a while we went out too. My father and Tsuyoshi played with a
"spark" ("kick" , itīs the one on the picture). |
 Later
we went out again to take some photos of the sunset. And of course run
around on the ice too... |
 You
can see our house in the background. Johan, Anna and Tsuyoshi are
standing in the same place as in the picture above, but this is taken
from the opposite direction. |
 The
ice is really beautiful. It only gets this blank and beautiful if the
lake freezes over without any snow falling. It is quite unusual. I hope
there is no snow for a couple of days so I can take some more beautiful
pictures. |
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I hope you had as merry a
Christmas as I did! A Happy New Year! |