Weekending

Thursday

The weekend began early this week with a visit to Toys R Us on Thrusday. It really made me miss Shaun because he's the biggest Toys R Us fan I know personally and whenever we went to one, we would sword fight in the aisle and I would proceed to give my 'anti gender bias' speech about why girls have vacuum cleaners and pooping babies as toys and boys have jets and super soakers.
I digress, anyway, yes we had fun looking at giant plush unicorns, Monopoly Sweden and I even played dress up as a viking!
Saturday
Then on Saturday Melissa and Bryan had signed up for a boat trip around the Lulea Archipelago, so Dale, Song, Vishnu and I decided to take a trip to Boden as there was a indoor pool there with slides, a current pool, steam bath, jacuzzi...the works! Before going, we had to stop by a sports shop as I didn't have a swimsuit and the boys readily helped me pick one. It was sweet, strange and embarrassing all at the same time. We (I) managed to find a pink bikini top and pink shorts to match. So we skipped over to the bus station and waited for number 23 to roll on by and take us to our water park.
Though I have no pictures to prove it, we DID have fun and TONNES of it too! The slides were awesome though there were some minor cuts and bruises sustained by the boys. No biggie. We went down the slides many times, then all clung onto a float shaped like a loooong snake and went round and round the current pool before calling it a day. The steam bath and jacuzzi were a nice touch to round up the whole day.

Our search for dinner led us to a small grocery shop run by an Iranian man. We found sesame oil, sambal and tom yum paste as incredible prices! But one the expiry date for the tom yam paste is 2 weeks ago...so I'm gonna try and freeze it. After a nice pizza dinner we headed back to Lulea by bus, chatting the entire time. It was great :)

Sunday
Haparanda! That is where the nearest IKEA is. IKEA truly is the same everywhere, except for maybe the food...but there isn't much to say about it because it really is the same.
But this was an IKEA paid trip, so food and refreshments were provided. In fact the areas around IKEA are more worthy of mention.
First we decied to go to Finland, which we were told is just 5 mins away. Well it took us more than 5 mins but it is very very near. The whole time we didn't know if we had reached Finland as the border was just a stony path and the only way we realised we were in finland was seeing a door sign in Finnish. it was quite cool seeing everything in a different language an being a mall that excepted euros if you did not have kronor.
But we quickly got bored of the lack of things to do in that part of Finland so we turned back round and walked over to Sweden. We wanted to see the stores that were surrounding IKEA. My favourite was the candy shop called 'Candy World'. I was pretty awesome, especially the 'pick & mix'. Just rows and rows of a never ending supply of candy (Godis in Swedish).
And such ends my eventful weekend, it was great and I must say I loved whatever it was that we were doing. Of course, the company was awesom-est :)