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The flight went fine, one stop on Island and then 5 more hours to get to the states. Luckily I got a seat next to a Swed. He was traveling with his family first to NYC and then down to Florida. We talked for 5h straight and I told him (and wrote it down) everything they should see and do in NYC and just stuff tourist usually don’t know. He really appreciate it so I hope they’ll get a great vacation now.

When we got to Newark it took a while to get through security and when I went to get my bag there wasn’t one for me. I had to talk to this guy for a while and tell him what it looked like and give him my information and stuff.

Then finally I got out of the airport and Dan was there waiting for me :).

Next day Dan had a class around 10am-12pm and then we, believe it or not, went to the mall, since the guy at the airport said it could take up to Thursday night before I’d get my bag.

We started by getting some lunch. He got all fried stuff and I found some sushi, not the best one put it was ok.

In the afternoon I got a call my bag was on it’s way and around 7pm it rang the door and I just sign a paper and there it was, my big red awesome bag filled with my Swedish food, -and clothes of course.

At night I had Dan and some of his roommates try all the stuff I brought. Such as hardbread with soft cheese tasting like salami, and of course box-picked candy, like liquorices, peppermints (polka) and ‘dumle’. I also got small cinnamon buns with me we put on the grill the next day (yummie).

At Menlo mall

Today, Wednesday we went downtown to the shoe repair, had to fix one of my zippers on my booths. It was $30 (about 200 sKr) back home it was 430sKr when I asked. Already saving in the money for the trip ;)

Afterwards we just walked around a bit, it’s been around 20 C since I got here but it will get a bit chillier in the end of the week.

We then went to Stop and Shop to get some groceries. I got stuff to make meatballs-burgers and some other stuff like chocolate mousse jell-o (tasted good but had a jell-o consistence).

So when we got back Dan but on the grill and bbq’ed his steak and I did my meatball-burgers and I also got stuff to make tzakziki. It tasted like heaven and we sat outside on the porch eating too.

Right now he’s somewhere doing homework with other people and then he have some frat-stuff and then something else so he’ll be back around midnight I think, so im just hanging out back here at their house with his roommates.

Pumpkin made out of soda's, at StopNShop

Dan at StopNShop

BBQ'n at the porch, notice the shorts, it's waaaarm here!!

Grillmaster

Started to rain but it was still pretty warm so we just sat there and enojoyed

the heat from the grill.

Tomorrow Dan has class at night so I think I’ll just drop him off and then go to the mall for a few hours and then pick him up when he’s off again. On Friday we’ll go to Edison, were his mother lives and I might as well go see the Rubin’s on Friday if they’re free (I emailed Janis earlier today). Saturday it’s Halloween and there’s a party at Dan’s frathouse if I remember it right.

Otherwise we’ll just take it one day at the time. We got an idea to maybe go see his sister down at Maryland, it’s like a 3h drive though. And I also would like to go to a farmer’s market because now at Halloween you can pick your own pumpkin and so.

Well, well we’ll just see what’s up. I’ll try to make some updates here : ).

Catch you on the flip side!