Life Abroad in the Blue and Yellow: One of Our Favorite Parks Had a Makeover and Other News...

I'm all signed up for SFI (the class I need to learn Swedish). I'm going to be going 5 days a week for a few hours a day. This then allows Emma to get into preschool and Olivia to stay in school longer days. I could have gone for two days/week (which I was slightly temped to do because I'm nervous) but I need to learn! Plus, it'll be good to get out and make friends and just have my own thing instead of it always being kids stuff.

This Thursday we have an appointment to set up a bank account. Yes, you read that right...appointment. We apparently need to be interviewed or something? We'll see how that goes. Johnny is getting paid in USD and therefore all of his money goes to our US bank account. In order to get it to the Swedish account we have to pay wire transfer fees and such. That's kind of a bummer, but with all this Brexit stuff the exchange rate has gotten better for us so we make some money there. (Thanks Britain! :))

After our bank account it set up we are off to lease a car. Car shopping/buying is always such a downer! I always leave feeling like we got a bad deal! It is definitely not my favorite thing to do. Hopefully it won't be so painful here in Sweden?

This past weekend was Big Power Meet weekend. A TON of people from all over the country and world come here to Västerås and bring their classic American cars and drive around while people sit along side the road and watch. There were also some vendors out and stuff. It was cool-ish. I think it'll be cooler next year when we don't live right in the city and listen to all of the drunk people blasting music and screaming at all hours of the night. We can just ride our bikes in, stay for the festivities, and then go home to our quiet neighborhood.

Today is a rainy day, so we're just hanging out inside today. It's kind of welcomed though. We have been out and about every day enjoying the weather, the sites, and activities so it's nice to just relax. (As much as one can with three kids who LOVE nothing more than irritating eachother!! )

The following pictures are of a park that just had a makeover. We enjoyed this park before it was upgraded, mostly because of the area it's in, but now it's even better.

Johnny really doesn't want the kids climbing on the rocks (because he's a safety nut) but I told them they could that day. You can see the excitement!