Sunrise: 8:50 am
After church, the sun was out.
Sunset: 2:45 pm
It will be nice being in the Bay Area of California for Christmas, where it will be warmer (in the low 60s) with almost 4 more hours of light per day. (Afterwards, we head up to the Seattle area for some home matters and seeing friends.)
After church, our first month hosts, Jim and Christina, invited us and another American-Swedish couple, Donna and Lennart, over for fika. This is a nice group who understand the complexities of adjusting to Sweden. Both Swedish spouses are excellent in Swedish; Christina works in an English-speaking environment.
Donna took Anya to a yarn store after fika, so she’s knitting now before she heads out to dinner at a friend’s house. She was invited over for lutefisk (or lutfisk in Swedish). I thought that it was just the Scandinavian heritage people in the USA that ate lutefisk, but I now know that some, but not many, Swedes eat it at Christmas time.
I will spend the rest of the evening with some Swedish study and finishing up getting my class ready for tomorrow. The topics are apocalyptic literature and the Book of Daniel.
With blessings,
Beth