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  Links to prior posts in this series: "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Post 1  "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Questions~Post 2 "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Cruise & Rosetta Stone~Post 3     "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~A Hiccup~Post 4 “MY” Swedish Adventure ~ Förbereda ~ Choosing our Cruise ~ Post 5 "MY" Swedish Adventure ~ F ö rbereda ~ Dates ~Post 6 There are some other people we thought we would attempt to see if possible. I sent a message to our friend's son who lives in the Ukraine to see if he could meet us in St. Petersburg while we were there. The specific week when I was handling this, I found out a cousin I have in Norway (she is a fairly recent connection) has a summer place in Sweden! So now, how was I to get her into the picture? I was hoping to meet Yvonne Henriksson too, you may know of her, she is a blogger in Sweden. Her blog is  Swedish Thoughts . Yvo...

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I am participating in Julie Goucher's activity: " The Book of Me, Written by You ." Prompt 4 - Favourite Season Do you have one? Why? A Happy Memory or association Close your eyes and imagine your favourite season – write down what you see, feel, hear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My Favorite Season I have a favorite season Years ago I'd have chosen two Summer and winter it would have been Now winter will have to do. Back when summer was included I was a lot younger then Swimming was a favorite The pool was close to our den. Twenty years I've had a pool No matter where I've been Another ten without a pool But a large spa has filled in. The times oh how they have changed   I find I have gotten much older It is clearly now I despise the heat I really prefer it being colder. Winter has always been my favorite I'm sure Christmas is one reason Another may have something to do With it bei...

Back in the beginning of August I found a message in my genealogy mailbox that made my day! The message was titled "Fleming/Hohimer family." I felt this message was a new cousin contacting me as these are names in my tree. I was so excited I could hardly wait to read the message. The email started out stating she had stumbled across my blog and thought I had done some good research. She explained to me that Laura and Joe Fleming, my great grandparents, were also her great grandparents! This was very coincidental because not long before this her parents had been a topic of conversation between me and my father.  I learned from this initial email that my grandfather, her great uncle, she referred to as "Uncle Fud." She said she had fond memories of him. This was a new name for my grandfather I had never heard before.  My cousin wrote that she found me because of a slip of paper written by our great great grandfather. She explained this paper was a note...

I am participating in Julie Goucher's activity: " The Book of Me, Written by You ." Describe yourself such as~ Your size – clothes size Scars Eye colour Draw your hands Finger Prints This week’s prompt is going to be a tough one for me. I am not one to think of or about myself. I now feel this is one of the main reasons I received the final cut when I tried out for the “Great Swedish Adventure.”  My final interview in Burbank went really well until the director left the room and I was with the assistant director and another lady. They asked me “what do you consider your worst asset? ” I think to myself...besides my obvious weight problem…what could it be?  I stumbled and stammered and finally told them I don’t like to think about "me" and that I really didn't know. I am most certain now that was what did me in for being on the show. Of course, when I came home and told my husband he quickly spilled out answers! Let...

  Links to prior posts in this series: "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Post 1  "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Questions~Post 2 "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Cruise & Rosetta Stone~Post 3     "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~A Hiccup~Post 4 “MY” Swedish Adventure ~ Förbereda ~ Choosing our Cruise ~ Post 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We booked our 12 day Baltic cruise on March 18th. Departure date was August 19th. Now that we knew where and when we were going on the cruise needed to, I wanted to contact some people to see if we could hook up with them while we were in different ports, etc. The first contact I made was with some people we friended on our cruise in the Mediterranean on 2011, Dave and Cathy. Our first stop before our cruise was in London, well, Harwich actually, but close enough to London that we wanted to see if Dave and Cathy would like to do the cruise with us. They live in the outskirts of Lo...

  Links to prior posts in this series: "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Post 1  "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Questions~Post 2 "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Cruise & Rosetta Stone~Post 3   "MY" Swedish Adventure~Förbereda~Post ~Hiccup~Post 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I can’t begin to tell you how many times we changed our minds on which cruise to take. We liked different stops on each cruise! Of course, we had decided we didn’t “need” a stop in Sweden because we could always fly from London to wherever we decided we wanted to go. There were a few things that did help us make a decision on which cruise to take.  First, and one of the most important things, when was my son in law’s mother  available to come stay at our house? She was already planning on being gone for three months prior to our trip and had an event she needed to be available for after our trip. This narrowed down the ...