The trip to San Diego went well. The Swedish Consulate was a little bit hard to find, tucked away in a semi shady area in a dark building with its only entrance through the car park. Gavin expected something more like the British one, where you have queues outside and guards and high security. Nope, this was a small office hidden in a corner on the third floor. It took about ten minutes to hand in the paper work and then we headed back home again. All that driving, one hour in each direction, for that. Why do they make it so complicated....Thankfully, there is less work for the British registration, all paper work can be sent via post. This also regards the British passport. For the Swedish one they offer two appointments a year in San Diego (the next one in April is already fully booked), or we have to fly to DC. No Thanks. We will apply for it in Sweden.
Saturday it was time to pick up the much awaited ham!! We drove up to LA somewhat late, it was past noon once we got ourselves sorted, and arrived to Ohlson's about an hour later. We have the biggest ham I have ever owned, 6-7 kilos perhaps? Luckily we have a big oven - American size! Stocked up on a lot of goodies, all in all we spent $200 dollar on all kind of Swedish food, guess I am feeling all nostalgic now when it is getting close to Christmas. Some of their stuff are 5 times more expensive than in Sweden.
Headed to the Grove for some Christmas shopping and dinner afterwards,
Manage to do the last of the Christmas shopping. The rest was taken care of online. Never loved online shopping as much as this year. Would have been lost without it!
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