Amelia's Blog: December 21st: Doing All The Things

We met Sus and Bo, and Sus's sister and her kid for lunch. Tacos. This time they were pretty good tacos. I wasn't disappointed. Not, like, stunned or anything, but not sad either. Gosh, it's like I'm writing a food blog. Like I'm rating Gothenburg's vegan options. I guess in part it comes from not having regular places we eat at. Of course there are places we like, but it's not like in Portland when we have our go to places. I'm posting this on January 6th, and just today Per and I were trying to find somewhere to eat on our way home from skating. There wasn't anywhere we wanted to go that was also convenient. I think the plethora of vegan options has made it so that we can grump if there's not a good place that fits our mood, and our timeline, AND isn't too far out of the way. In Portland that isn't asking too much. But in Portland we have a car and know exactly what our options are. We are getting so picky here! (We ended up just going home and eating a really tasty dinner that we made ourselves.)

So, anyway, tacos. Then we went skating, then we ate dinner at this Ethiopian restaurant that had been recommended by a young women I met through helping with English. (She said she spoke much better English when she was back in Somalia, before she came to Sweden, but then she had to pour all her focus into learning Swedish and her English got rusty. Use it or lose it, I guess.)

After dinner, we went home and baked and ate an entire batch of gluten free vegan gingersnaps. Pepparkakor cookies are so popular here this time of year that you can buy pre-rolled dough in every food store. The brand we get in the US, Anna's, is also really big here. There are displays for pepparkakor all over.

So after we ate all the cookies, drank a bunch of alcohol-free glogg, and watched a Christmas show, we WENT OUT DANCING. Robert helps put on a giant dance party every December. When we showed up at 10pm, it hadn't even started yet. It's jungle music, which weirds me out and I don't know how to dance to it. I do a passable job faking it and copying everyone else, but I just can't feel the rhythm in my bones the way I can with most other types of music. It's weird not being able to catch the momentum. I just really don't get it! But it's fun regardless. We had a few friends there, and I even bumped into someone from the book binding group I went to after the English conversation group last week. That made me feel like a local, for sure.