A weekend goes by fast!

Summary of the weekend in the little house:
3 trips to Bauhaus
1 trip to Hornbach
2 trips to Emmaus
2 trips to the dump
Removed 3 bushes and planted grass instead
Removed 2 rose bushes
Moved the lawn twice
Countless trips with the wheelbarrow to the waste collection
Countless hours of removing weed from the flower beds
New paving stone at the entrance
Cleaned the house thoroughly
Moved all strawberry and small strawberry plants to one flowerbed
Cleaned out the garden shed
Must say we did a pretty good job in three days! Will add pictures when I get them out of the cell...
Ended the day with a nice dinner with Anna and doing the laundry... And now a presentation for tomorrow meeting and then off to bed!

Kristihimmelsfärd in my house

Back in Sweden since Monday. The restart was good, but a bit confusing... But the boats were finally sent off to Galway. After three full on days in the office, I'm taking the weekend in my house. After cutting the lawn yesterday it looks pretty good, but there is a lot to do. Pär was out here yesterday having dinner and it was good to catch up on the local news! Soon my parents steps into the door to stay for the weekend. Going to be good with some help in the garden... :-) Hopefully the weather improves and we'll take a tour to Marstrand or Hönö tomorrow.
Tuesday I'm off to Galway, but only for a week, so it hardly counts...
I hope you all have a good weekend!

Full on weekend!

Monday morning and I can look back at a busy weekend and overall everything went very well! We had about 300 hundred guests for our Warm up evening on Friday, which went very well! It was a success which feels good after all the different formats we tried, but this worked in the US. Saturday morning we had a breakfast for 200 persons, which also went very well with the Swedish sailor Roger Nilson. Most of the guests though didn't show up until later in the morning, but by the end we were full house.
Then we had the Inport race. As I'm responsible for this port I had to stay onshore. We got all the boats out there with our guests and commentators and they had a very good day, even if there was not a lot of wind and quite foggy. Christina and I took the chance when it was calmer to go for lunch at the Barking Crab. Very nice! The only emergencies during the day was when we had to get the Saudi Prince off the Swedish Kings VIP boat. Considering that the race track was about 40 minutes boat ride out, I believe we did a great job in getting him in! When they called about an hour later and wanted a sea sick lady to come ashore I didn't think we would solve it, but we did and she got to shore too thanks to our TV Team. Felt like a good job done to get them in!
Saturday night we were invited by Marge to a Clam Bake. They had steamed lobster, mussels and steemers and it was great! Very good food and a lot of fun!
Sunday we had the Pro Am race in the harbour with a lot of guests. It was a great day with sun, but a lot of wind, so they had to change the format of the racing to match racing instead of fleet racing. They were timing the laps and then adding up the totals. I believe both guests, crews and public really enjoyed the day! And in the evening the weekend ended with the Leg Price Giving dinner. Edward and Johan lurd me into a couple of beers and Raspberry Vodka before we even got there, so we were quite late, but it was a great dinner, which continued at a bar until late. I've taken a sleep in this morning, but now it's time to get into the shower and down to Race Village.
Tomorrow I'm off work and will try to go to Newport with Ingrid and Annika. Really looking forward to that!

After Sail in the Volvo pavilion

We had the last After Sail in our pavilion yesterday. It was a huge success! Very good with a lot of people showing up! Edward and I bought matching t-shirts at the Puma store. Mine saying "Lookin for a drunken sailah" and his saying "I´m a drunken sailah"...

Mikes pastrys

We ended the evening at Mikes pastrys. What a great place! The cakes are huge! I finally had a cannoli and it was great! It's in the North End of Boston, also known as the Italian quarters.

Union Oyster House

Monday night Ingrid, Marge and I went to the Union Oyster House. A great place, Americas oldest restaurant that has great boiled lobster!

A car in Lego!

Yesterday it arrived, the car built in Lego! It took them about four months and over 200 000 pieces of Lego.

The frogs and lizzards are great!

Boston Bruins semifinal!

The four of us went to see Boston Bruins vs. Carolina Hurricanes. Elenor and I. Most people had the team colours, black and yellow. It was great to be there, but the bruins lost and the hockey was not that great... Anyhow a great evening!

Lunch at the Barking Crab

This place has quickly turned into my favourite restaurant in Boston! It doesn't look much from the outside, but the lobster roll is to die for! Three times out of three I've had the lobster roll, so I guess I need to try something different next time... This time I got Ingrid and Marge with me. Marge works for Volvo Group North America and is spending the week here with us.

Saturday in Boston Common Park

Had the Saturday morning off so I took a walk to the Boston Common Park in full bloom. Had breakfast at a café, went past the pub Cheers (from the sit com series) and eventually ended up in Fanueil hall that had a lot of shops, market and very nice atmosphere! Did some shopping before I had to head back to the hotel.

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