We flew from Hamburg to Stockholm where we were picked up by my sister-in-law. We spent 2 days with her and I will write more about that later after we go back to spend more time with them! Let’s skip ahead to Thursday, though, when we took a train north for 7 hours to a ski resort town called Are where we met up with friends. Are is the largest ski area in Northern Europe and it just so happens that our friends have a ski-in/ski-out condo there. They spend every winter weekend and holiday there and we were lucky enough to join them. Are is the same lattitude as Mt. McKinley, Alaska. Situated on a large lake, the town is an athlete’s paradise. Jeb would especially be very happy here with all the snow kiting and paragliding. The Joe Ollsson Invitational, Big Air competition, was also being hosted that weekend so we had great night time entertainment right outside the windows. Some of us got to ski a few days and that is always a very good thing! (Poor Levi had a bad accident on his second run of the first day and was out the rest of the time. He has been such a trooper despite the situation.) P.S. He is walking again and will be OK!