Nowadays

One thing I've been waiting to do all week is publishing pictures from the amazing surprise party my best friends threw for me last Saturday. All I knew in advance was that something was going to happen that day. Stina and Caroline had told me to take the day of and come home to Landskrona. And so I did.
     

The instructions said to be at Caroline's parents' house at 15.30. I thought the girls would be there, but nope. Instead Caroline's mom gave me an envelope that held the first clue to a rebus and a map over the neighborhood. To get to the next clue I had to go to number two on the map, and so on. When I finally had all clues (except one that totally passed me) I could follow the instructions and walk over to the real meeting place, the premises not far away. There waited six happy faces for me. Caroline, Stina, Jill, Josefin, Nina and Mia. The first five have been my friends since elementary school. We were in the same class in school for six years, and pretty much grew up together. They are amazing people, all special in their own way and even though some of us don't see each other that much anymore I love them dearly and know they are always there for me. They are golden souls in my life. Mia is Stina's sister in law, a sweet and warm person, always fun to see.

Caroline and Stina had planned a great afternoon. Together we all went to a sauna, showered and then sat sweating in the steam, drinking champagne, laughing, chairing memories and updating each other on our lives. It was sooooo much fun. After a while Stina told me to get ready to walk into the next room. I had no idea what to expect but in there was Uffe (the masseuse, better known as Mias sambo) waiting by a massage table, ready to work my back. Sweet! I was in dream land.
  
An hour or so later, after showering and getting dressed, when I thought there would be no more surprises, I was suddenly blindfolded. With the help of Caroline and Josefin I was led out to a waiting car. Martin, Caroline's sambo, drove and even though I tried to follow the car's twists and turns it didn't take long until I had no idea where we were. After a while the car stopped and I was helped out and walked in through a door. When the band for my eyes fell a choir of voices screamed SURPRISE. There was my family, all of them (!), the girls from before and other friends as well. I was numb.