At 5:00 I woke up and found Elias and Ruben upstairs watching a movie. Ruben had insisted that they not watch the movie until the sun was up… that was around 4 am. The whole house was up by 6, including grandpa who was pounced upon around 5:45 am.

I sent Ruben back to bed around 7am, and got Elias back to sleep by 8:30 or 9am. I napped for about 2 hours, waking up around 11:30, then trying to get everyone else up and dressed. We were supposed to meet my folks at 1pm at the main square. Getting every else up was impossible. We finally got going around 12:30 and were a little late meeting my folks. Apparently tardiness is not something that the Swedes are… so when in Rome… still with a kid from the west coast of the US, that just doesn’t work.

We toured the city a bit, trying to find a place to eat. My mom tried to get us into the sushi/tapas bar, but it was pretty busy. We walked across town to the museum and had lunch there – we had only 2 or three choices for hot meals. I bought a ham sandwich for Elias, who didn’t eat it. He just asked for and drank 1/2 a glass of water. He started to act very strangely, and at one point he started gagging. I grabbed the bag that the sandwich came in and he puked up everything in his stomach. I got most of it in the bag, a little on my dad’s chair, nearly hitting my dad. Once he stopped I took him away from the food and sat with him for a while. All he wanted to do was go back to the house, which we did right after we all ate.

On the way home, my mom and I lagged behind and visited some really cute shops.

Elias was ok when we got back, but still wouldn’t eat. I gave him some cold medicines, and a little later he was better – playing around. In the late afternoon we went to a park on Mariesbergviken – a lake where they have a small wading pool, tons of kids play equipment and a small beach for the kids to play on and swim. Many of the kids were buck naked, and having a great time. I asked Elias if he wanted to just strip and swim, he wanted to put on the swim trunks I had for him… Elias swam, jumped off the dock, etc, and had a blast. He didn’t want to leave when it was time to go home and make dinner.

At dinner he wouldn’t eat anything again. In fact he fell asleep on the bench behind Ruben. We woke him up after dinner, and all walked back towards town to the festival down by the water. There we met Susanna – a young woman my folks had struck up a friendship with earlier in the month. She was lovely. We sat, had some drinks (I had a yummy, but sweet, pear cider). Elias drank some 7 up, and even later asked for a bit of candy. I bought him some chocolate coins – which were “Euros” – I bought one for Matthew too. He ate one.

Around 9:30 pm we headed back to the house. On the way back we saw a beautiful sunset over the canal. Elias finally ate his sandwich and then got ready for bed. He fell asleep around 10pm after reading some books with everyone.