In August 1979 I started on my very first travel adventure. I put on my red skirt, white blouse and red blazer and waived goodbye to my parents at the Winnipeg airport. I then flew with KLM via Montreal, Amsterdam and onto Gothenburg Sweden. I had no idea what to expect and had never been so far away from home. Keep in mind, this was the days of 8 track cassettes and Saturday Night Fever. Disco was real and ABBA was actually popular! It was also the year the events that inspired the movie Argo happened. There was no internet and home computers were a new fangled thing. I spent a year in Sweden attending school, learning to speak Swedish and seeing something of the country. I also made some great friends. That year made a huge impact on who I was and how I saw the world.

Now almost 34 years later I am once again flying KLM via Montreal and Amsterdam but this time with my husband Dale. We will be landing in Stockholm. After a few days of touring Stockholm, We will head north to Mora to see where they carve those beautiful horses we see in IKEA :). Then we will travel south to meet up with my old friends. I am very excited and terrified to really learn how much Swedish I actually remember (or have forgotten).

We leave tomorrow. So for those of you who followed us through India, I now invite you to follow us through Sweden. Welcome on board.