Gotta write that blog entry...

Hi y'all!

I know we've been bad... Not writing any posts in our blog and all... Anyways, lots of stuff has happened since last. Karin is working (too) hard at her gym again, where she now is in charge of the pool-part. This means that she has to organize all the swimming schools and what not... As well, she now gives aerobics classes, Core at the moment, but soon even Power and Afro Dance (She's gonna get some more sun before that one... ;-)
Joseph is studying again, both in Malmö and Lund. Last term went well, so Joseph passed all the exams, something that he is less sure of this term... it's all gonna be good, though. Gotta stay positive.

A couple of weeks ago, we went to Germany to say hi to our family (it was Joseph's mum Franziska's birthday). Joseph went to Berlin first to check by his dad and brothers, than we went to Neubrandenburg for the birthday party. Franziska enjoyed our company so much that she decided to come with us to Sweden for a week. The weather wasn't great, but we still had a good time. Karin and Fran even went to the Skördefesten on Öland, where they had lots of fun.

Sadly though, Joseph's computer stopped working for good this time. We had to get a new one, which crashed after only one day. that wasn't fun. Now, with a new power supply, the computer is working again and Joseph is writing this entry off it right now.

On Saturday, we went to Copenhagen together with our friend Jenny to have a look at the Bodies exhibition. Even though it is not the original German Bodie Wordlds, it was still interesting to watch. Afterwards, we went to the Hard Rock Café and had potato skins, spareribs and chicken wings (which didn't feel weird). Than a bit of shopping and a cuppa at the Moon Café in Christiania (can't go to Copenhagen without going to Christiania). Even though the weather was shit, we all had a really good time.

Our nephew Fabian had his 1st birthday last week (well, second really, if you think about it, anyway, he's one year old now). And we once again send our best wishes to him and his family. Also, tomorrow (22 October) is the 35th anniversary of the death of my grandfather and my dad told me he'd light a candle for him from all of us.

Staffan is still on the Azores, but it looks like it's not gonna be any house soon, with the bad economy and all. Last week, the Euro cost more then ten kronas for the first time. That's what you get for holding on to your inflatious currency...

If you wanna listen to some fresh Swedish music, try this new one from one of J's favorite Swedish artists: Timbutu: Tack för kaffet

Well, that's all for now. Hope to hear from you too! Until next time!

//J.

Thank you cards

We have sent out some thank you cards regarding our wedding that took place 2008-06-20.

You can find lots of pictures here for you to enjoy from this great event. If you have pictures of your own, we would be greatful to see them as well. :) More pictures will arrive from the disposible cameras later. Our fotographer was Rita Michelsson, you can check out her homepage at http://www.lunaproductions.se/.

If you want a picture or two in normal (big) size write us an e-mail telling us which one you like and to which e-mail adress that we should send it to.

Wish you all the best,
Karin & Joseph Leist

Honeymoon

Now, let us tell you of our honeymoon...

As most of you now, we did not book anything since it was our weddinggift from most of the visitors to our wedding. We had decided earlier to book a last minute vacation from all the contributions we got. The wedding was on Friday, we still had a little get together with Midsummer celebration on Saturday, and on Sunday evening we went back to Malmö.

On Monday, we started early to check out all the travel agents in the real world and on the net. After some time, Karin had found a couple of great alternatives and we finally decided to go to Greece. The town we had never heard of was Parga and it was on the coast of the main land in northwestern Greece. It was a small apartment with kitchen and fridge and... ...it was for two weeks! We really had to hurry, though, since we had to leave Malmö within an hour to catch a train to Kopenhagen for the plane, which left that night. Quickly, we threw some clothes and stuff in our bags and were on our way to Greece...

We arrived in the middle of the night at a small airport in Preveza, south of Parga. We were hungry and Karin amazingly fixed us som crisps with beer... yummy! Later that night, we arrived at our hotel and, tired as we were, fell asleep fast.

The following days, we went to explore the the town and the surroundings. We enjoyed good food, good drinks, swimming in the ocean and swimming in the pools. And we had our first day-trip. This one was sort of island hopping, which started at Lefkada and took us to Fiskardo, Ithaca, Meganisi, Skorpios island and more... So many islands on one day, but that's Greece for you.

To be continued...

Please feel free to check out the pictures from our hoeymoon. You'll find them on the right hand side under Photos: Honeymoon.

The Blog is dead! - Long live the Blog!

Hi again,

Now to make it official: this is the blog we will be using from now on. So make sure to bookmark this page, as we will try to update it regularily (Which we haven't been doing for a while now). So much has happened and we will try to report to you. As well, there is a link to our old blogs to the right, mainly our weddingblog and our travel diary from New Zealand, India and Australia... Also, we will try to figure out how to link to a Picassa photo album, so you can see lots of happy pictures of us and our friends... And please, leave some comments, it will encourage us to write more often...

So please, check in often to see whats going on!