It's Wednesday morning, and we finally saw a significant amount of snowfall over the weekend here in Stockholm. First time since I've been here that we've seen snow plows out. It started snowing Saturday, and snowed off and on through Sunday. Reese is having a blast running and jumping in the snow. And somehow she can still sniff out the Rabbit turds through 3-4 inches of snow and eat em, which she's had a habit of doing here. We try and keep her from doing that, because, well, they're turds. But I've also heard that Rabbit dookie is actually full of vitamins, and might not be all that bad for a dog. We still try to keep her from snacking outdoors, but it's hard because you can't see the little skittle sized poops.
So Sunday morning I sit down to to do some stuff on the computer while Reese and Kristy are still sleeping, and I flip on the TV. On TV, we have a total of 6 channels available to us. On this particular morning, two of the channels are featuring skiing events. That's not surprising, as it seems there is skiing on 24/7, and I've complained about that before. What is kind of unusual about our other choices is that two of the channels are still off the air, and Goofy (yes, the Disney cartoon character) speaking in Swedish, is on the other two channels. Interesting. At least we are not subjected to Basketball here!!
Speaking of Kristy and Reese, they were both very tired, for two very different reasons Sunday morning. Kristy had a bandy game Saturday in Tranas, about a 3-4 hour bus ride to the southwest of Stockholm. In the meantime, Reese had to stay here in her Kennel while we were gone, but we asked our friend Robert, who is Kristy's teammate Elin's boyfriend, to come let her out. We were informed by Elin that Robert came and let her out, and then some. His plan was to come get Reese shortly after we left, and take Reese with him for the day. Reese was exhausted when we got home Saturday night, and she couldn't get out of bed yesterday. We're not sure what Robert did with her, but we think he may have taken her for a run. Kristy and I don't take Reese running. One, I don't run. I feel like a champion after just making it up a flight of stairs! And two, Kristy doesn't take her running because Reese always wants to stop and sniff everything, so it's a constant battle to keep her moving. But her exhaustion was a good thing Sunday morning, as Kristy and I had plans to head over to our friend Miska's house to have lunch, visit, and make plans for a trip in early April to Finland, Latvia, and Estonia. Miska is from Finland, so she is advising us on the trip. Anyway, the good thing about Reese being exhausted, is that we figured she would be happy just to go in her kennel and sleep while we were gone.
Meanwhile, Saturday in Tranas, Kristy's bandy team concluded a dominating regular season, finishing with no losses and a lot of lopsided victories. Her teammate Mikaela finished as the scoring champion for the league, and their goalie Linda finished with eight shutouts in a row. She also let in no goals on their home ice for the entire season. Normally I would say a lot of the shutouts were because the team was dominating, and Linda never saw any shots. But that's not the case. She's just awesome. Saturday she stopped a breakaway, and a penalty shot, which are next to impossible to stop. Kristy was bummed that their regular season was over, which means that the end to bandy for this year, and also our stay here in Sweden, is nearing an end. It's still over a month away, but neither of us want to leave at this point.
There is no changes to report as far as my watch goes.
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