Day 2 and 3 has now passed on our mountain trip. Yesterday we went investigating some old train tunnels no longer in use, which meant climbing over fences and ignoring signs to stay the hell out of there 🙂 It was fun, very fun. It was over by “Spionkoppen” at the train station Sösterbäck in Norway. Dinner was palt with reindeer chafe in cream sauce. Yummy.
On day 3 we took a drive to Abisko and took the chair lift up to 900 meters and walked from there to a close by top of 1191 meters. It had a very nice view of Abisko and the mountains around it. We had planned to eat a hot lunch up there but we had to abandon that idea as the chair lift stopped running at 15:30 and we had spent to much time on the mountain top. Instead we headed back to the apartment and made dinner. Potatoes with a yummy Peter meat sauce.
The weather was really great both days. Perhaps a bit too hot for hiking but still very nice.

Me and Jalle have now had our first real mountain day. We walked up to “Trollsjön” and took a gazillion photographs. Very nice indeed. It wasn’t so warm but we didn’t get any rain, anyhow. The forecast for the next two days is sunny, sunny, and perhaps sunny.
It is so relaxing to be in the mountains. Ahh………..

In about 45 minutes Jalle will arrive for our trip to the mountains. I spent all day yesterday baking and packing and I really hope Jalle will enjoy all the food we are going to cook up there. I have half the kitchen with me 🙂
I hope we get good weather up there, but here in Luleå the weather is rather bad with rain and fog.
It feels strange going on this trip with Jalle as it is the first time ever that I take a pleasure trip with somebody else than Johanna and I must admit that I would rather do it with Johanna if I had a choice (sorry Jalle :-). But a guy only trip can be fun as well and it is part of my living on my own self learning process. I had to do all the packing on my own, which is something Johanna has always done with me standing by and being all stressed up. Yes, I always get stressed up when traveling somewhere, even though I have travelled quite a bit in my life. A couple of years ago I stopped getting stressed during the actual trip (at airports etc.) but I still get stressed up at home before leaving. I slept rather bad this night and it currently feels like it is in the middle of the night (i.e. I am tired :-).
I bought 3 different melons, bananas, kiwis and tons of other delicious things to eat. Here is the 7 dinners we have available to choose from during the the week:
Sausage stroganof with couscous
Chili con Carne with rice
Onion soup and pancakes
Palt with reindeer chafe (“renskav”)
Schweizer with bulgar wheat
Devils eggs with potatoes
Chicken in cocoanut milk with rice
Now I am going to pack all the cold and frozen items.

Today I have a busy day in front of me. I have to plan the trip to the mountains, pack (== find everything ;-), bike down to Kvantum and shop and bake a brunch bread. I also cannot forget to cover the new heating pipe holes in the wall that the workers left behind. They are going to cover them later, but why would they do it now when they can do it later, right? I have to water all the plants and of course get the presents shipped to Johanna and Tovah.
Håkan called this morning by the way, while I was asleep so I didn’t get to talk with him. BUT just the fact that he called warms my heart 🙂 He is checking up on me to see how I feel and I like that!
Unfortunately, the SUN seems to have taken vacation, but that might be as well as I am going to be busy all day.