birthdays

It seems to be the time of birthdays! On Friday we celebrated Anjas birthday and on Saturday and Sunday Ulrikas. It was all very nice: lovely people and cosy parties. Ulrikas birthday party was even two days long: on Saturday we met in the afternoon and played some funny games outside in the snow and had some glögg (that's the Swedish version of glow wine - veeeeery sweet as everything in Sweden but almost as good as glow wine :D). As you might know that I love both playing games and snow a lot that was the perfect thing for me! *smile* In the evening we had a birthday party with the advent theme. Quite a lot of people dressed up e.g. as an advent calender, pepparkakor gubbe, angel, christmas tree ball (my favorite! :D). When it's someones birthday and people sing the birthday song for them they have to sit (Ulrika and Helena on the picture) and everybody else is standing.
On Sunday we then had breakfast at a hotel - it was delicious and I ate far too much... You see quite a long birthday party - but one of the best!

People start to decorate for Christmas. But in contrast to Switzerland people here basically decorate their windows and balconys. I've only seen one Christmas tree so far. But this might be because I live in a student area... Certainly I have some decoration in my room too as you can see on week twelves pictures. :)

I wish you all a cosy advent!