Spent most of Sunday morning on Skype catching up with the Nonni; Dan, Amy and Leia; and my wonderful wife Jodie. It was the first time since leaving that I’d seen my little niece and she was looking gorgeous. It’s only been a bit more than a month but she’s already bigger than I remember and looking more aware of her surroundings – I swear she looked right at me and smiled (or maybe that was gas?).
Needed to get some food for lunch so decided to walk into town and see what I could find. Ended up at City Gross so picked up some essentials – more cordial, some corn chips and Pringles for snacking and, most importantly, some sugar to have with the pancakes I’m going to cook tonight for dessert. I’m excited about the Pringles – Sea Salt and Black Pepper flavour!
Thomas and his son, David, picked me up around 2.30pm and we headed into Malmö. The Malmö Stadium is a relatively new building with a capacity of 30,000. We were sitting in row seventeen, almost level with one of the goals so we had a good view of the game. I’m sad to say the home team – the Malmö Redhawks – lost 2-1 in a close game.
Malmö Redhawks vs AIK
The final score came with 20 seconds left on the clock. The Redhawks had called a timeout and came back on the ice minus their goalie, choosing instead to field six regular players. Unfortunately this backfired big-time – they lost control of the puck and the other team made an easy score against an empty goal.
Thomas, David and I all had a good time – even though we didn’t understand what was going on some of the time. I understood the rules better than they did, but couldn’t understand the Swedish announcements telling people what was happening. Still, I managed to explain what ‘icing’, ‘hooking’, ‘offside’, and ‘power plays’ were so they weren’t completely lost.
Home about 7pm. Tomato soup and toasted cheese sandwiches for dinner – followed by crepe-style pancakes with butter and sugar. Mmmmmmm…
Yummmm!! Why doesn't Australia have salt & pepper chips? They're so tasty.
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