6-7 Alexis and Family make it to Gothenburg

 After all the drama in the last few days - they made the train trip to Gothenburg and then took the #1 Tram to Frolinda Torg - our stop.  Michael went to the tram to meet them and guide them to our apartment.  Sleeping quarters will be tight tonight - but hey - we are together.  

They arrive around 1-2pm.  All of us are hungry.  We decide to go out for lunch, and also need to do shopping for snacks/breakfast stuff.  And because of my boot I can't walk to the mall.  But there is not enough room in the car for 6.  Alexis and Rob decide to do the shopping.  We make a list - everyone seems to prefer a different snack.  We can get them all - as long as Alexis and Fam take them home with them.  We leave in two days.  

Meanwhile Lia and I are trying to figure out games the whole family can play together.  She is looking at on-line games.  I am looking at old-school games you play with your mind and voice.  Turns out we need them both.

We took them to Da Mario - our third time there.  So many choices of food.  Two people got pasta, 1 salad, 1 kabab pizza and 1 kabob plate.  

My kabob plate - kabab meat over French fries covered in kabob sauce.

I did not take photos of everyone else's choices - but all seemed to enjoy them - and several people helped finished my plate.

Lia had set up a game of "Family Feud", unfortunately, she could not get the questions to download properly and had to enter them all manually which took quite some time.  Meanwhile the rest of us played one of my games.  This was an ABC game where the first person had to say where they wanted to travel and what they would take with them - all starting with the letter A.  Next person does B and then c etc.  We played a couple of rounds of this until Lia finished the questions and Michael finished a phone call.  

One round of Family Feud was enough - as it would take too long to enter all the questions for the next round.  So on to another game called:  Gartic Phone.  You can play it on your phone, tablet or computer.  It is a drawing game/sentence game.  You start out with everyone typing in a sentences - the weirder the better.  These are assigned randomly to other players to draw a picture of.  Those pictures are sent to other players to describe.  Then to another player for a picture.  Sort of like telephone where you whisper a phrase into each other's ears and in the end it comes out very strange.  In this case the sentences/pictures change over time and can be very funny.  There was much laughter and loud exclamations - but no neighbors complained.

Sunday morning Michael and the granddaughters went to the mall to the Hepkot to get doughnuts.  Everyone slept reasonably well.  I was in a very dark room and could not fall asleep - I am used to much light now!  After breakfast A and family packed up - Lia and Natasha were keen to play another round of Gartic phone.  We played one round - and of course they wanted another - but they need to catch the train back to Malmo.  It was so great to have them here.  And we need to be in the same space - otherwise someone is always having to sacrifice something.