stockholm weekend pics, museums and a culinary tour

feeling grateful for this time in stockholm.  sometimes when i am going about my days it hits me that i am away from home, that i am here in stockholm.

for example, this weekend...

i take the little ferry to the moderna museet.
i spend time with a girl i met and immediately adored years ago in vancouver when she was just a few years old and who - along with kai - will soon be a teenager.
i make do with a language i am not fluent in, slowly deciphering text and words.
i spend an afternoon walking the streets of sodermalm, an island.
i eat, drink and laugh with lovely expats.  
i am an expat.
i listen to kai practice his swedish.
i buy a year membership at the fotografiska - i will be here that much longer.  

a saturday afternoon at the moderna museet with two of my favourite kiddos.  i wanted to see the paul klee paintings - i love his colours and form.  he was presented alongside swedish painter ivan agueli.  i ended up loving agueli's palm grove paintings, so beautiful.  i thought the kiddos would get a kick out of the life itself exhibit but they declared the view from the windows were the best art!

an afternoon on a culinary tour of sodermalm with some lovely expats, such a geat way to spend a sunday. there was chinese, greek, and indian; meatballs, of course; we visited a food hall and one of the most popular restaurants in stockholm.  then there was dessert - hot chocolate at chokladfabriken followed by little cakes - the coconut one was delicious - in the private room at the fotografiska.  oh, i mustn't forget to mention the bloody marys made with gin at nytoget 6, it was a favorite among the group.

  

btw, i'm learning to use my camera on its aperture setting and i haven't quite mastered it yet so, as you may have noticed, all indoor photos are either not sharp or out of focus.  many were deleted!

i hope you had a lovely weekend.