I’m back at work again after nearly three weeks of vacation. Most people are still on vacation this week, and as the weather is gorgeous for the first time all summer, I don’t expect to see too many people in the office until at least next Monday. Most people at this company get 6 weeks of vacation per year (plus whatever they have in their flex bank.) I get five weeks (since I am only contracting here) and I have already used them all up!
Rights, so plenty to report since I last blogged. P and I bought our first house the day before leaving for our honeymoon! It is here in Gothenburg (guess we’ll be sticking around for a while!) and is a bit more central than the apartment we have now. It shouldn’t take us more than 5-7 minutes to drive into the city, plus I think I will have cut about 5 minutes off of my daily commute. Right, so details then? The house is two floors plus a basement giving us roughly 150 square meters (1615 sq ft.) We hope to put an extension on the house, which will add about 18 meters (194 sq ft) to the second floor. The house was built in 1927 and has been remodeled a couple of times. The wallpaper and floors need to be changed, and the floor plan is a little weird (in some spots.) Anyway, we want to do a big remodel. After completing the extension we hope to have two bedrooms and a bath upstairs, plus a master bedroom, master bath, and walk in closet. Down in the basement we have a sauna and a jacuzzi tub. We have a decent sized yard for living in a city, a big deck, and a gazebo. Can’t wait to move in! Come visit!
Moving on…the honeymoon was awesome! We stayed at the Kanadburi Resort, which was really great. The room was awesome and the service was great too! The staff sent a cake and champagne up to our room on the first night. They also decorated our room with rose petals etc. I’ve uploaded some pics onto Facebook. Anyway, our hotel room was only about 100 –200 feet away from the beach! The beach was just lovely. In the evenings we walked along the sand until we found a good place to eat. Restaurants line the shore and the tables are in the sand, just a few feet away from the water! Fresh seafood was yummy and super cheap! I also drank tons of coconut shakes, and had a few coconut ice-cream sundaes. Yummers !
We also decided to try scuba diving while in Thailand, and both earned our “ open water diver “ certifications from PADI. We went on an overnight dive trip to Ko Tao and did four dives. Diving is awesome! There is so much to see! We had tropical fish swimming all around us! Some even tried to clean our ears (apparently they do this to big fish.) Anyway, the dive trip was incredible. I definitely recommend a dive shop called Blue Planet. It’s a smaller shop, which was recently bought by a young British couple. They have tons of diving experience and patience, plus competitive prices. We paid less at their shop than we would anywhere else, and still got private lessons and a private trip to Ko Tao !
So now we’re back in Gburg, where the weather has been real crap until today. We went up to Bengtsfors last Saturday and had our first auction of the summer. It went well and we had fun. Hopefully we will get one more auction later this year, but the business has been slow this summer. (Which is really just as well as we’ve been busy and away.) Now we’re just counting down the days until we can move into the new house! I guess I need to start packing…
Rights, so plenty to report since I last blogged. P and I bought our first house the day before leaving for our honeymoon! It is here in Gothenburg (guess we’ll be sticking around for a while!) and is a bit more central than the apartment we have now. It shouldn’t take us more than 5-7 minutes to drive into the city, plus I think I will have cut about 5 minutes off of my daily commute. Right, so details then? The house is two floors plus a basement giving us roughly 150 square meters (1615 sq ft.) We hope to put an extension on the house, which will add about 18 meters (194 sq ft) to the second floor. The house was built in 1927 and has been remodeled a couple of times. The wallpaper and floors need to be changed, and the floor plan is a little weird (in some spots.) Anyway, we want to do a big remodel. After completing the extension we hope to have two bedrooms and a bath upstairs, plus a master bedroom, master bath, and walk in closet. Down in the basement we have a sauna and a jacuzzi tub. We have a decent sized yard for living in a city, a big deck, and a gazebo. Can’t wait to move in! Come visit!
Moving on…the honeymoon was awesome! We stayed at the Kanadburi Resort, which was really great. The room was awesome and the service was great too! The staff sent a cake and champagne up to our room on the first night. They also decorated our room with rose petals etc. I’ve uploaded some pics onto Facebook. Anyway, our hotel room was only about 100 –200 feet away from the beach! The beach was just lovely. In the evenings we walked along the sand until we found a good place to eat. Restaurants line the shore and the tables are in the sand, just a few feet away from the water! Fresh seafood was yummy and super cheap! I also drank tons of coconut shakes, and had a few coconut ice-cream sundaes. Yummers !
We also decided to try scuba diving while in Thailand, and both earned our “ open water diver “ certifications from PADI. We went on an overnight dive trip to Ko Tao and did four dives. Diving is awesome! There is so much to see! We had tropical fish swimming all around us! Some even tried to clean our ears (apparently they do this to big fish.) Anyway, the dive trip was incredible. I definitely recommend a dive shop called Blue Planet. It’s a smaller shop, which was recently bought by a young British couple. They have tons of diving experience and patience, plus competitive prices. We paid less at their shop than we would anywhere else, and still got private lessons and a private trip to Ko Tao !
So now we’re back in Gburg, where the weather has been real crap until today. We went up to Bengtsfors last Saturday and had our first auction of the summer. It went well and we had fun. Hopefully we will get one more auction later this year, but the business has been slow this summer. (Which is really just as well as we’ve been busy and away.) Now we’re just counting down the days until we can move into the new house! I guess I need to start packing…
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