A few days ago Chie lost a filling in one of her teeth and we had got a scheduled time for fixing it at the Folktandvården (dentist) in söderhamn. It was the first time for Chie to visit the dentist in Sweden. Her dentist was Nobuko Inglund, a Japanese, but most of the time she was cared for by a young guy from Gothenburg learning to be a dentist. His hands was very big for her small mouth.

On our way to Söderhamn we stopped at mother and Ulf’s summer house. This was the first time in many years that my grandmother and mother met. So we made a group photo for the special occasion.

Even earlier in the morning, just after breakfast, Chie and I took the boat out to get the fishing net. To our surprise we got 14 fishes: 1 pike-perch, 5 European perch, and 8 carp bream. The 8 carp bream were too small to eat so John took them out in the forest and left them there for cats and birds to eat.

John helped us take the fish out of the net. Then we put it in the refrigerator to keep it there until the evening.

   

In the evening we cleaned the fish and prepared in for dinner. We used the pike-perch and 2 of the European perch for it. Yummy!

   

After dinner we played Boccia in the garden. John had home field advantage and won both rounds.

Eh… Today we went to Eh where my grandmother and John has their summer house. It’s just outside of Bergvik. Before going there though we dropped Robert off at the train station in Söderhamn.

   

We spent most of the day relaxing and reading in the garden. Around 6 pm we took the boat out to put some net in the water. It was quite difficult since it was the first time for Chie and the first time in many many years for me. Finally Chie had to row the boat while I put the net into the water.

After the boat trip we had dinner in the garden. Then we relaxed some more, drinking wine and water before going inside to do just the same until we went to bed.

   

Very cloudy and quite cold today. But we went out picking blueberries anyway. Robert spotted some from the car so we stopped and picket about 1.5 liters during in an hour.

   

After picking berries we went to the grocery store to recycle some PET bottles. It was a new experience for Chie. We recycled them just in time for a lunch at Brogrillen.

In the evening we played Croquet and had a BBQ again, eating the leftover from yesterday. We just finished before it started raining. After dinner it cleared up again and we could visit the horses in more or less sunny weather.

   

Woke up and had breakfast quite early although we went to bed late last night. Then Robert, Chie, and I drove to Fallet outside of Bergvik to visit at my mother and Ulf’s summer house.

We had time to say hello to a few of the 21 horses spending their summer vacation there. And we went to the Växbo Kvarn to look at the old linnen “factory” and to have a coffee break. In the evening we played Kubb and had a BBQ.

   
   

At 12:10 pm my flight to Schiphol (Amsterdam) departed… With me onboard. I was going there to meet Chie coming in from Tokyo. Before that I had picked up our rental car (a grey Volvo C30) and parked it at the parking house closest to the arrival hall.
We spent 5 hours together. Having dinner. Salad and soup. Shopping. Chocolate (Toblerone celebrated its 100th aniversary), make-up, and other important things. Before entering our flight to Sweden at 9:05 pm we had a mineral water and Heiniken draft beer just next to the gate.

We arrived in Stockholm on schedule and got our bags. Chie from the belt and me from the locker in which I locked it in before departing for Schiphol. Then we drove to Gävle to sleep.