Easter and stuff.

At the moment i have a week off of school for easter holidays. Easter in Sweden is a bit different to easter in Australia, lots of people and businesses decorate by putting up coloured feathers everywhere.. well not everywhere.. just like little feather tree type things.. its quite pretty really.. and also there is something to do with easter and easter witches here.. so i have seen a few houses with witches on broomes out the front of them.. and the easter bunny doesnt really exist here.. from what i gathered, it is an easter hen... which even though, technically makes a lot more sense than a rabbit with eggs... but it still doesnt seem quite right to me..
anywho the shifty, sly easter hen hid my egg downstairs in a cupboard... which i sniffed out and found.. now i bet all you australians are thinking.. yum a chocolate egg... but alas! this egg was not chocolate... it was made out of paper/plastic and had pictures on it of baby chickens and stuff.. but then inside it was filled with candy.. yum :)
I did see in some shops that they have some chocolate eggs for sale, but it was nothing compared to the amount of chocolate eggs you can buy in Australia... oh and theres no hot cruss buns here.. which doesnt really bother me, but i still always associate with easter..

On good friday Sanne, Naya and I went to a nature reserve type place nearby called Kungshamn-Morga (i only know the name.. cos the map for it is sitting next to me on my desk ;) ) we packed some sandwiches and a thermos full of tea.. and walked through the forest, then we reached the lake which is all frozen over still... and sat on the rocks near the water (ice) and ate our lunch. it was really pretty there.. and we walked out on the ice.. i started to walk out quite far, until i got to some dodgy ice.. which started to crack underneath me... so then, being the wuss i am i quickly ran back to land.
Then on saturday Sanne, Naya and I drove north of Uppsala and looked at some different art exhibitions.. one of them was her own.. it was quite fun and interesting.

Last night Mats took me to an ice hockey match in Uppsala... which i absolutely loved! it was really cool, all the crowd gets really into it and sings songs and claps all the time.. I have decided that i really like watching ice hockey.. which is weird cos i dont really enjoy watching sports that much.. but this was so fast and exciting to watch.. and they get rough and have lots of fights. which was cool! I think i found it so cool to watch, because i was so easily impressed by just the fact that they could ice skate so well! let alone play a game at the same time!
It was the Uppsala team playing some team from south of sweden.. i was going for the Uppsala team.. cos they had cooler uniforms and cos they were better.. they won 4 goals to 0.

Today Naya and I rode bikes out to some horse stables which are a couple kilometres out of town. There is a little fat, stubborn shetland pony there that Naya looks after.. so we cleaned out its stall and then groomed him and took him for a walk.. then we fed the other horses. It was quite fun and cool to be at a farm again.. even if it was a lot greener and prettier than what i am used to seeing.

The beginning of that paragraph i think i said quite casually.. "Today Naya and i rode bikes..." however i am a little embarassed to say.. that i haven't ridden a bike for at least 2 years.. the last time being in year 10 when we did our outdoor ed bike camp... so it was quite an exciting moment riding a bike again.. and i must admit i felt like i did when i was little and got my trainer wheels off for the first time.... a little shaky! I have never been that good at riding bikes.. i suck at steering, especially if its sharply.. but i am pleased to say that i didnt fall off at all today.

This afternoon i felt like baking something.. so i thought i would make some choc chip biscuits... so i went to the supermarket to buy some chocolate chips.... and they dont have them here! i looked over the entire shop.. but no luck.. i ended up buying cooking chocolate and cutting it up..

so im not sure whether its all of sweden that doesnt have chocolate chips or just ICA Kniven, whatever it is i think they should invest in some!

oh and the biscuits turned out good....and the mixture was amazing ;) - a little too amazing.. i still feel sick from it!