Eldership Mission Sweden - Sleepover and Varberg

As Wife wrote in her post on Friday, the #3's, after all kinds of trials and tribulations trying to come up to Gothenburg to spend another weekend with us, ended up holing up in our apartment. They arrived on Saturday right after Noon and left Sunday morning around 11am. It was like a multi-generational sleepover. 

After they arrived, we split up with #3 & 3A going to the supermarket in the mall to get snacks and drinks, while 3.1 and 3.2 helped me to transport Wife to a restaurant in the mall where we were all going to join up for a late lunch. This involved 3.2 and I going to get the car from the far parking lot, 3.1 helping Wife down to the car, us driving to a place in front of a mall entrance near the restaurant so I could drop Wife off, and me then finding a parking place and coming back to the restaurant. 

We actually timed the thing pretty well with #3 and 3A arriving right after we had sat down. We went back the place Wife and I had been to twice before and it did not disappoint. It kind of reminds me of the Greek owned diners on the U.S. East Coast that have just about a bit of everything on their menus, most of it good. I had the kebab pizza again so 3.2 in particular and others could try it. I wanted burger maven, 3.1 to try the burger which Wife and I had enjoyed our first time (she declared it quite good), while 3A and 3.1 had pasta, #3 a big salad, and Wife a kebab platter (essentially kebab meat and fries). 

Back at the apartment, we started to play games. 3.1 is in her element. She set up 3 different games using various apps. The most fun of these, by far, was a game called Gartic Phone. (The name makes no sense to me. We all started to call it Garlic Phone. It doesn't have anything to do with a phone.) In the game, each player writes a short sentence or phrase, that is sent to one other player. Each player must then make a drawing representing the sentence or phrase. The drawing is done on your phone, computer, or other device. That with the time limit severely limits what can be created. The drawing is passed on to another player (at random) who has to write down a sentence or phrase describing the picture. That is sent on for another picture to be drawn, with a last round of interpretations taking place. Then you look at all the results. The way the narrative evolves can be quite amusing as is the pathetic attempts to draw.

Snacks and chocolate were consumed during all this. We closed the evening off with a movie after which all crashed. Next morning I took the two grandchildren back to the supermarket to buy donuts and pastries. We had a nice breakfast, played another round of Garlic Phone and then the #3s had to make their way back to Malmo. Wife and I decided to have one more day trip down south to a small city called Varberg. 

Because of the time, we decided to find a place for lunch first. I've made a lot of jokes about Swedish cuisine, or the lack thereof, however, I think we've finally cracked the code to get Scandi food as #3 calls it. You go to any place called 'Restaurant' with no other ethnic designation. You're going to find a place that has a salad bar (some fairly sparse, some extensive, a choice of fish and meat entrees, with a burger and a kebab plate thrown in, and free coffee. The food is going to be pretty good to very good and have a surprising amount of flavor. 

 The Meal at Varberg

This place had an incredible salad bar. I kind of wish I could have just ordered it! I should have taken a picture of the whole spread but I was too shy. 

My Plate

Two kinds of pickled herring, two kinds of potato salad, a pasta salad, two kinds of cabbage salad and pickled onions...about 30% of what was on the bar!

I had a Grilled Plaice, a whole flat fish with boiled buttered potatoes, roasted veg, butter & caper sauce, with a shrimp garnish.

 

Wife had the Pork Schnitzel & gravy, with roasted potatoes, Bernaise sauce, and veg.

 It was so much food!

We were at a place on the outskirts of town near a nature preserve. The nature of the sky over the weeks we've been shooting photos has been rather blah and i was in the mood to give monochrome a try.

 

 

 Study of Espouses Fotograficus Unus Pedibus

She Contemplates

She Stalks

That which is Stalked

 Stalking the Stalker

 In Varberg City

(With the mobility challenge we really did not do much, but said to ourselves next time we visit the #3's we will want to spend a good day shooting here.

Dragon Ship

Old Customs House

 The Port Square

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