Amy Mohr

This weekend Katie, Henna and myself traveled with Ida to Skellefteå to visit her family.  Ida's hometown, Skellefteå, is about an hour and half north of Umeå.  So the four of us drove up Saturday morning, stayed the night and came back around 3.00 today.  Ida's dad turned 50 years old yesterday, so some of his friends came over to fika!!  We ate lunch and cake and just sat around the table enjoying everyone's company.  Ida's father, Ingemar, told many stories about his days when he played basketball in the highest league here in Sweden.  It was great company and food was amazing!!

After our late lunch, we went on a long walk around Ida's neighborhood.  It was absolutely beautiful!!  Fall is in full swing here and all the trees are changing colors and it is absolutely beautiful!!  Henna is an experienced photographer and brought her high-tech camera with her to take some pictures on our walk!  It was a great walk...talking, taking pictures, laughing.  Just fun times with friends and family. 

It was really nice of Ida and her family to take us in this weekend and have us be apart of their family.  Especially since us foreigners are so far away from our loved ones.  It just isn't as convienent for us to go and visit them for a weekend.  This is basically our last weekend before our season premier next Saturday vs. 08, so it was good to get away and relax a bit!!  It was also our first weekend off since I have been here.  Overall, it was a great time and I'm very thankful for nice people in this world.  Here are some pictures from our walking adventure this weekend...courtesy of Henna (the photgrapher).


It so we begin...(Katie, Me, Ida, and Sophie-Ida's little sister).


The river behind Ida's house.


Henna(from Finland) the photographer... except for this picture that I took!!


Me...trying to model!!  hahahahahahaha


Ida, Katie and me just hanging out on the bridge.


Katie during a candid shot.



The changing colors of the trees...the red ones were so pretty!!


As the leaves begin to fall.


Walking and having a great time!!


Nice work Henna!!  Thats us up ahead!


Check out the sky!  Local church by Ida's.


So pretty!!

So thanks Ida and her family for a fantastic weekend!!  We really appreciate it!!

Tomorrow is Monday and a new week begins!!  Katie, Henna and myself will teach a basketball class in the morning, and 3 more classes later this week.  We will try and promote the popularity of basketball in this city.  That is the ultimate goal!!  Getting kids familiar with the sport and hopefully they like it!!

Tonight we are going to watch the World Championships for Women's Basketball final,  USA vs. Czech Republic.  Then to bed for an early start tomorrow at 8.00am! 

THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY was getting to Skype with Mike today and both of us using our webcams.  Mackey was nice to let me use her computer with the camera, so then we were able to see each other while talking!!  It was so nice but it always makes me realize how much I miss him and it really, really makes me realize how much I love him!!  He is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I LOVE HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING!!

SO now it is time to get serious this week...big game Saturday!!
I hope everyone had a great weekend!!

KRAMAR