Part I of the Apartment Tour

We safely arrived in Lund on Tuesday afternoon. To our happy surprise, our apartment is large and gorgeous! Perhaps a bit dusty, but we're working on that. Here are about half the photos:

This is our living room. It's big! The house is completely furnished in Ikea - and I mean everything - dishes, silverware, desk, sheets, towels, rugs, etc. The floors are these wide wood boards that you don't see too often in the US.









Here is a desk in the corner of the living room. There are pictures on the wall in this apt, but they are weird! There are also nice rugs throughout the house, which makes it very homey.










Here is a very small part of our bedroom. Let me start by saying that the bedroom luckily has plenty of space for storage. There is a big beautiful window that looks out into our garden. And there are TWO king-sized beds. You are looking at the main one. In the corner, there is another. Perhaps it's for guests. Daniel and I figured we could put it in the living room for visitors (in other words, get here in the next 6 months for free lodging in Sweden! Now you may be asking, why does it look like two tiny beds pushed together? Oh yeah, because it is! Every hotel bed we had last time we were here was this version - two twins meshed together, creating a dangerous crack you can fall into at any moment. When Dan and I visited, it drove us nuts. Perhaps this is TMI, but we are cuddlers, especially in the winter. This here crack prevents the nighttime cuddles and it really sucks. On our Ikea outing, which we hope to do on Friday or Saturday, we might look for a "crack filler," if such a thing exists. Anyway, what does this say about the Swedes? Do they not cuddle? Does this merely fulfill the stereotype that they are cold, laughter-less people?!

Here is some of the storage in our bedroom... Quite a bit!












I will have the second part to this email in the future - the uploading of pictures takes forever.