Friday 13th weekend .... And when you think it couldn't get worse

Sweden again, a very very short trip. Catch a flight to Sweden friday night after work and go back sunday evening sinne my oral exams are on Tuesday. This was the plan. 

I was able to leave work Walker than expected met up with Anja, had some dinner and headed to the airport. The check in went smoothly and we took our seats in the waiting area just in time. And then we waited. When it was time for the departure, they anounced a delay of 30 minutes, which soon became 45. Btw. our flight was at 9:35 pm with arrival around 11:00 pm. 

When we finaly were on bord the waiting continued. Due to the weather (too foggy) only one starting track was open. Anyway we arrived with a delay of 1,5 hours. But soon we would take our car and drive to the hostel - that was the plan. But again that was changed... The counter was closed and no key at the information as it was annouced on the door of the counter. 

The lucky thing that happened was that we caught the last bus to town. We arrived at the hostel around 2 am - 2 hours delay in total. 

We would call the car rental tomorrow to see how this is going to be worked out. 

Back in Sweden

After one year I am back in Sweden, getting some X-mas feeling. Last week they still had storm and snow chaos, now that we are here Gothenburg shows it's usual grey winter side. Anyway who cares when you can hear Swedish X-mas songs all over the place.

Yesterday we went to 2 nice concerts right after we had checked out at the airport. And again it was awesome. I'm always blown away what musical skills Swedish kids have and how they are being developed in this country. 

We checked in in the hostel late and had a long sleep in morning today. After that we went to Freeport to do some X-mas shopping and even if my suitcase was full (and I mean full) already when we arrived I couldn't resist and bought more that has somehow to fit into my suitcase.  I will keep you updated on that part.

Anyway this trip is only lasting 4,5 days so on Wednesday I will be back again in Germany to get the last preparations for Christmas done.

more pictures from Gunneboslottet

day 9 - the last day in Sweden meeting up with friends

At our last day in Sweden I didn't run. We met up with my friend L. who had returned from Romania the night before and spent most of the day with her. Strolling once again through the city, sitting at the harbor chatting about all and everything. I haven't seen her since winter so we had a lot to catch up. She is moving to Mallorca within some weeks so we don't have a clue when we are gonna see each other again. It feels surreal to know that she is probably not in Gothenburg anymore when I come there next. We know each other for 10 years now so it will be strange for sure.

In the evening we had another nice appointment at Götaplatsen with Jenny B. Since we had made an interview in October that never made it online we agreed to do the same interview again with recent answers, because it's pointless to release an interview that is almost 1 year old. Jenny arrived with a cab waving at us. It was nice to see her again. We were talking about what we had done the past days, that we enjoyed Jakob's and Greger's concert and also Terese and Simon singing. Then Jenny asked us if we know the secret of the fountain at Götaplatsen. We didn't so she introduced us to that secret and we were laughing so bad... If you wanna know what it is about just go to the 3rd entrance of Konserthuset and take a look at the statue and you will know...

So we went up to the top of the art museum to look for a good angle for the interview. We started with it right after we found a nice place. Jenny answered the questions. After that we made a small photo shooting. The people around us were probably wondering what this was all about. After the photo session we went into a restaurant where we had dinner. We talked a lot about how we have been. Around midnight we said our goodbyes. The night was short, because the flight today was at 6:50 a.m. already, which means only 4 hours of sleep.

Here is my outcome of the pictures. More can be found on The Jenny Source

day 8 - moving into Slottskogen's hostel and another relaxing day

Monday was they day of our move and it was so hot and sunny again, which was great. In the morning I went for a run to and through Slottskogen, since it was not close to that far away as I thought it was. I ran to the park in less than 7 minutes.

We took it easy this morning since we had to pack our suitcases but couldn't enter the room before 2 p.m. so we spent some time in Slottskogen's park again until we got the room. After we had installed ourselves we were strolling around Linnéstan went into the city, had a walk around the harbor which we haven't visited before. We ended our walk in Haga. I just love this part of the city with the small and narrow streets and all those shops.

Summer in Sweden is just awesome :)

day 7 - Sunday - time for more music in Tranemo & a Deja Vu

Sunday was relaxing again ... can't remember when I was relaxing so much the last time. We went to Tranemo this day since Terese Fredenwall and Simon Petrén were playing there. Again we had to drive through Borås and reached Tranemo after a 1,5 hours drive.

We did a walk through the city, which is rather small. The first service started at 3 p.m. so we went to that Church in the middle of nowhere. The Church was really pretty inside with a lot of sculptures and colours. Very beautiful.

Anja and I were sitting on a bench when Terese and Simon arrived. Now that was a surprise for them as Terese told me immediately. They went inside the Church and so did we. The Service started short after.

Terese started her program with one of my favorite songs from her album "Närmare Mig" called Daniels sång. She told that this was about a boy who didn't have a father since his first father didn't want to see him and his second father didn't want to adopt him. At the end he realized that he had a father in God. You could see that Terese was still touched by this memory when she told the audience about it.

When the service was over we went to the big Church in the centre of Tranemo since there was another service with them at 5 p.m. When we had taken our seats, Terese and Simon were already rehearsing, a woman walked up to me and asked me if I was singing too. I told her I wasn't ... did wonder a bit what that was all about but it wasn't the first time I got that question in Sweden, so I didn't really think about that anymore.

Also this service was very nice with a lot of good music. They even sang a song which I sang years ago in Church and had totally forgotten about. Isn't it always strange when I hear a certain song and although you have forgotten about it you can still remember the lyrics and the melody? That's music, you just gotta love that ;)

After the service we packed our mini studios together. People were going to Terese and Simon to wish them well, another women walked up to me, looking at me, saying. "Is it you that is Jenny?" I must have looked like a cow when the thunderstorm comes - as we say in German lol - I was like: "No, I'm Jessica."

"Oh, she said I thought you were Jenny, but you are a part of the Petrén family?" - I told her being a friend...

Now that was weird. Anja was just laughing saying, now you know why they wanted you to sing.

Anyway we gathered with Terese and Simon and had some nice chat before we were heading home again...

day 6 - women's day - shopping, music and nature

We started quite early this day to leave for our trip to Freeport. I bought of course far too much stuff that I actually don't need, which I in that case need very urgently. Isn't it always like that? Your closet is filled until it bursts and still you need this and that.

So after Freeport we went to Kungsbacka, where the Kungsbacka Party was right in the middle. The son of my friend was playing there with his band Maddox Street. It was pretty cool. They played basically their own stuff but it was nice to hear.

After the concert was over we went to the beach and even though Anja and I were so warm from the sun, the water just seemed freezing cold. We spent there the rest of the day and we were starving when we came back. The chicken we were eating took an eternity to get hot.

day 6 - no clue what we did this day

really .... Anja and I have now thought about what we did this day ... but we just don't know ... nothing left in the brain from this date. Strange, isn't it?

edit: ok I found out that I mixed up the dates lol sooooo... I gotta change the blogs after this one ;)

day 5 going to Gunneboslottet ... and the mistery with the mixing up of dates part 1

We had no idea what to do this day so we went to the Gunnebo castle. I had never been there but sqw always the signs leading there so I wanted to see it. Unfortunately we missed those BIG huge signs and ended up in Borås once again ... we turned around and went back and guess what, on our way back we found the castle.

It wasn't that exciting though, so we spent there 1-2 hours and drove back. When I was sitting in the car again I received an sms from the friend we are actually staying at wishing me Happy Birthday. I wasn't sure if this sms was just late or if he had mixed up the dates.

Since Anja and I were so hungry we stopped by at Burger King. I don't like Burger Kind at all because mostly you get burned food or raw food or outside burned and inside still frozen food. This time we got a chicken burger that was drown in mayonnaise. Disgusting I can tell...

Thank God we got some alcohol when we were back home... or was it medicine again? Whatever it was, it worked. After that we drank some bad wine and discussed the Birthday issue. I found out that he was mistaken by the days... thought it was Wednesday whle it was Thursday already...

oh and I ran on this day just around the area ...

day 4 my birthday and a concert in Fristad

I went running again and ended up at Stigbergs torget this time. It's interesting to discover a city while running and exhausting. When I was back home Anja was awake already singing Happy Birthday for me. We were relaxing in Slottskogen's park, walking through Linnéstan. In the afternoon we went to Fristad.

The concert wouldn't start before 8 p.m. so we had enough time for some ice cream and to discover the surrounding. We had just checked around the Church and found some nice place to sit when we heard 2 motorcycles. While the first one was passing us I said to Anja that it would be fun if that were the guys... the 2nd one passing us and waving. In that moment I realized that the first motorcyclist had a violin on his back. They were turning around at the end of the street and driving towards us. Jakob lifted his helmet and said "See you inside!". Both were driving back to the Church then.

Anja and I enjoyed the sun a little more. Soon we got ready to go back to the car. The guys had parked their motorcycles in front of the Church and it looked awesome when we passed that place.

We got ready in the car, grabbed our stuff and went inside the Church. Jakob and Greger were rehearsing around the organ and we took our seats. We were checking the lights and the angles while Jakob and Greger came downstairs t rehearse on the piano as well. We learned that one of the strings was just broken and Greger had just renewed it so they needed some extra practice...

The concert was great. Nice instrumental songs incl. one I knew from the Aurum Trio album, then my all time favorite "Var morgon ny" (also from this album), some baptism and confirmation song that Greger had written for his Godson and one that Jakob had written for his. And so much more which I don't remember right now.

After the concert was over Jakob came over and told us that this was the first concert with this program and about his future plans with music. Someone told us then that we had to leave the Church. So Anja and I went outside while Jakob and Greger changed clothes for their way back on the motorcycles. So while they were packing their machines we got to chat a little bit more.

We said our goodbyes and got a hug from both each and drove back.

When we had passed Borås suddenly someone was driving behind us. The light was so intense and we saw that it was Jakob on his motorcycle. He passed us after some seconds and drove into the night...

day 2 & 3: the journey to Sweden

Yesterday we were relaxing mostly getting ready for the trip to Sweden. The flight was going 9:30 p.m. and even then it was late .... so we missed the opening hours of the car rental and Anja looked sad when I arrived with the suitcases since they had closed the counter 5 minutes before she arrived. At the end we were clever enough to stop by the information point where the key were laying since they obviously knew that the flight was late. We got a Renault Clio...

Today the sun was shining. Of course since I decided yesterday last minute to leave by bikini and short pants home, since the weather forecast said +22°C, which I knew is toooooo cold for me. I learned today that 24°C is perfectly esp. when you are sitting right in the sun ;) So the weather was nice and after we had done an important thing at one office we decided to go to Skärhamn. We had been there one time during winter time and wanted to know how it looks like in summer :) So today was the day. It was nice, we found a nice place to sit at the sea ... first in the gras, which was nice until we realized that the ground was so wet that our pants got wet.... we moved and found out that we were just sitting on a hill of ants .... we changed a third time and there we were ... relaxing ;)

Oh and in the morning I did my very first run on Swedish ground... that was funny too. Esp. when I came back with breakfast and Anja was still in bed... and I thought that I didn't have a key for the door downstairs. I was waiting outside for 15 minutes until a neighbor told me that the door was open... yeah I know that's silly me.

Tomorrow is my birthday... no plans made so far.

Stockholm

Today was a tourist day :) Stockholm was beautiful today with a lot of sun and a clear sky, just perfect to go around and take pictures. Our short trip will be over tomorrow. It's always equally hard to arrive back in reality with all those impressions in your brain, esp. after such a short short-trip as soon as you have realized you are in another country/city you are home again wondering if it really happened. Luckily I have all those pictures to remember that this was real :) I will be off on Tuesday as well, a chance to get some things done at home and to finally go to the gym again :)

It's been a while...

again :) I know I had so many ambitions to keep this blog alive, but I just have not enough time. A lot has happened that would be worth writing about, but time just seems to get by faster and faster every day. I for example passed my driving test, which means I'm able to finally drive cars. Now that's good news, huh? lol still I'm not able to drive rented cars for another year, so Anja is still on her own driving through Sweden with me, which is actually where we are now.

We went to Stockholm yesterday for a concert of Jenny Berggren... again. It was great. Well you didn't really expect me to write something different, did you? Anyway, she was doing a performance with Terese Fredenwall and Simon Petrén at Enebykyrkan, somewhere in the outskirts of Stockholm. This place must be brand new, since our GPS didn't find it. So we ended up driving around for a long time again to find the church. But in the end we arrived. We had just hung our coats when we saw Jenny waiting outside in the cold, since the door was locked. We let her in and she wasn't really surprised seeing us being there long before time. We went in with her talked about how we had been, received a warm hug from her and Terese. Then they had to prepare themselves and do the soundcheck, so we also found a seat in the front row and got our equipment prepared.

The concert/lecture started at 7 p.m. and was simply great as usual. Perfect to just sit there and forget about your everyday life which is waiting for us back in Germany filled with stress and huge amounts of work. The setlist was as follows:

Moonshadow

Let My People Go

No More Nights

Give Me The Faith

Ravine

Encore by Terese:

To You

I will continue the list as soon I can think of more.

The people were very eager to listen to the presentation of the book and didn't really want her to stop talking :)

When everything was over, Jenny and Terese sold her albums and the new paperback book, while we ran around, taking pictures and also having a snack which they offered. We accompanied Louiza and her friend who were there as well. Short after that Jenny joined us sitting around the table. She asked us about the great news that she is going to Denmark to perform at the ESC election there and we agreed that this was great news. So we chatted a bit about that and also about the upcoming concert in Russia next week. We agreed that the competition in Denmark would be a great boost for her album and even book but that she has to see how it works.

Even though she said in the beginning that she had to leave very soon we spent quite a long time with her and even Terese. We went home 10:30 p.m. after a long exciting day :)

attempt to see a x-mas concert part 2 :)

Now I'm back ... back from my shortest trip to Sweden ever, filled with a great concert, nice talks, a ride through winter Sweden and a big bag of good memories.

This travel seemed to be under a bad sign again. Friday after work I went to my driving lesson and when that was over to the band x-mas party. I had only slept 5 hours after the x-mas party at work the night before.

I was trying to get to this day's x-mas party, which was not that easy, since Berlin's public transport is always out of order as soon as one snowflake reaches the train tracks or the ground. So while I was trying to get from one part of the city to the opposite, my mom, who was joining our trip to Sweden was caught in her train to my home, which was like half an hour late and Anja was still caught in a train in Hamburg, which was not going. 3 trains before had already been cancelled, this one had to be de-iced because otherwise the brakes wouldn't work. It would be bad sitting in a very fast train without functioning brakes, so waiting was worthwhile :)

Anja arrived a lot later than expected, but she made it. But this was only the first step to be taken until we would arrive in Sweden. Iwas home around 1 in the morining ... we had to get up at 5 to be at the airport in time.

After I awoke I turned on the computer to watch the flight. My Swedish friend wanted to go to Spain the same day with stop in Berlin, so she would have to take the same plane we had to take in the other direction so I checked first if her flight was in time.

My heart stopped beating when I read that her flight had been cancelled. "This can't be true ... not again ... am I not supposed to see that X-mas concert?" I thought when I typed our flight number with shaking hands. No note for our flight though ....

We left home as planned, it was so cold. I realized that the bus I had planned to take was not going that early on Saturdays so we tried another, had to switch the bus ... waited an eternity outside in the cold, made it to the airport finally - still in time. But the airport was crowded. I had never seen that many people at terminal C in Tegel's airport as yesterday. They were everywhere. Anja and I had to drop off the bagage, while my mom went to the security check. The flight was about to board and we were still standing at the drop off because they had problems with the conveyors. When Anja's bagage was checked in I had to wait there another 10 minutes until I got rid of my suitcase. Anja had passed the security by then.

At the end we made it in time since the flight was late, but the most important thing was that there was a flight at all. Arrived in Sweden we got our car and went to the hostel. Although we have had a huge delay with the flight we were still too early for the hostel as we learned, so we went for lunch before we could check in the hostel.

It was our first time in house 1 of Slottskogen's vandrahem and I really have to say that I won't stay there anymore if I can't have a room in house 2. It's not that house 1 is more oldfashioned but house 2 seems to be cleaner. you can read about that part of the travel soon on my other blog travel experience.

We got prepared and drove up to Kinnarp where the concert was taking place. It was in a huge sport hall, they had sold 250 tickets until the day before. When we arrived Jenny, Jakob and Greger were already doing rehearsals. I heard "Air Of Love" right in the minute we entered the hall. When we stepped in a man came to us and told us that it's not open yet. I told him we are here to meet up with Jenny. He asked me if we had tickets, I told him we hadn't but he should talk to Jenny. He didn't seem to believe me and send one of the other men standing around to ask if she was expecting people.

In that moment the door was opened. We saw Jenny on stage, she saw us too and waved. I waved back and she waved that we should come in. In the moment I took my first step to enter the actual location the man from before closed the door. I didn't know what to do so we kept waiting for the other man to be back. He came out a couple of seconds later and told us we could go in.

Jakob, Jenny and Greger were still checking the sound. Simon Petrén was also arround to do the sound. Jenny welcomed us and Jakob was waving "Hi" as well. While the soundcheck was ongoing we prepared ourselves, which means camera check :) When we had finished the first people from the audience came in. Half an hour later the place was full. We learned later that there were over 400 people this evening which is amazing thinking of how small that little city was.

Short after 7 Jenny & Co. entered the stage and started to perform. The program can't really be described because there are no words that would match this incredible show. They had traditional songs, songs from Psalmer För Livet, My Story, some from the original program and nice instrumentals. The mixture was just perfect.

Setlist:

Ett barn är fött på denna dag
Joy to the World
Så alldeles stilla
I Betlehem mitt hjärta
A Long December Night
Moonshadow
Mary's
Instrumental Greger
De som levde förr
Stilla Natt Heliga Natt /Silent Night
Air of Love
Instrumental
Dagen är kommen
Jul, Jul, strålande Jul

But this wasn't this great concert was followed up after a small break by a lecture presenting Jenny's book. The lecture was shorter than unsual but interesting as always :) At the end they finished with "Give Me The Faith".

It was just an amazing evening.

When everything was finished people hurried to the table where Jenny was selling and signing books and CDs while Jakob and Simon started to pack their stuff together. Within half an hour all the tables and chairs in the hall were gone. We had a small chat with Simon and a little longer one with Jakob talking about his coming projects while Jenny was still signing and signing.

It seemed that the whole audience wanted to purchase either a book, cd or both, which was incredible. When that part was done we had the chance to talk a bit with Jenny, to get some CDs signed. After a while she told us that she had to help the 2 guys.

When she was gone we started slowly to get our things together and prepare ourselves for the way back to Gothenburg.

Jenny, Jakob and Simon were still carrying huge boxes into their car when we went to them to say our goodbyes until next year. We wished each other a merry Christmas and a happy new year, waved a last time and went to our car.

I finally made it

Even if one day late and even if I missed the x-mas concert I made it to Sweden. Before I left ... like 15 minutes before I headed the airport I had called Anja to ask her if she would go with me to the x-mas concert next week. So new tickets are booked :) I have to see that concert.

So next week mother nature has another chance to let us come to Sweden in time :)

The first evening in Gothenburg I met one of my dearest friends who is working close to Slottskogen's hostel. If you ever need a tooth hygienic when you are in Gothenburg, she is the best :) After that we went to Liseberg. Too bad it started to rain while we were going there and so we arrived in our room very wet.

Today we went to town to do some shopping and I met another very good friend of mine for dinner. I think I made the best out of the little time I had. 1,5 days is really not that much, but long enough to get a good feeling and x-mas vibes that will take me through another week of hard work.

tomorrow we are leaving again ... if Berlin's airport is free :)

Almost on the way :)

Just one day of work left ... one time going up very early, fly to Düsseldorf, go to Oberhausen, work work work, go back to Düsseldorf, get on board, fly back to Berlin and being home in the middle of the night :)

My suitcase is almost packed, batteries are currently charging, backpack is packed, presents are in the suitcase etc etc. I'm so happy. I have to enjoy every single second since it looks right now that I won't be able to go there very soon again. Due to a move we won't get off from work in the 1st quarter of next year. Max. 1x 5 days, so I have to plan carefully.

So I'm off until Sunday :)

emotions all the way ...

What a day .... woke up this morning and nothing really seemed better than yesterday ... then I remembered that I should check Jenny Berggren's website ... it's finally up :) When my Macbook said it's usual "pling" even Sara woke up and grabbed her computer ... Anja needed more sleep. so there we were, checking the new website, listening to the song clips. If you haven't visited the site, you should definitely do it www.jennyberggren.com :)

When Anja was awake we started to get ready. We should show up at Expressen's office around 12:45 to see Jenny and her staff perform. As typical Germans we were there around 12:30. I told the guard that we were there to meet Jenny and first she thought she was working there. I was rather confused ... she didn't know who Jenny Berggren is lol. She told us to go upstairs so I was heading the elevator and didn't even realize that the girls didn't follow me. Somehow the door was blocked. Anja was making strange moves to show me that I should go to the door again so that it moves. Then some other people came and told us that the girls should ask the guard once again to open the door. Then it finally worked. We jumped into the elevator and went up to Expressen's offices. A guy called Christian was waiting for us at the door and asked us to follow him.

While we were going after him he asked if we were the girls to do the backing vocals. As always when somebody is asking me directly I didn't even think one second and told him we were there to watch the recordings. Sara was saying while we were still being led through those uncountable corridors that I should have said we were the choir lol. To late I told her. Christian asked us where we came from and while I was answering Germany and the US I thought maybe he asked which paper we are from since we had all our equipment with us, which could easily be mixed up with a portable TV set :)

He asked us to take a seat, told us that Jenny was still on the way so there we sat. Simon came out and said hello. He told us that Jenny was somewhere. We found out later that she probably was getting Terese and Elin.

Then they arrived. While Jenny was storming into the studio where the recording should take place Terese was hugging us and said hello, presented her friend Elin who was also singing with them. She told us that Elin is gonna sing on Terese's upcoming album and that they are gonna perform "Give Me The Faith" and "Gotta Go". Then it was time to go into that room to do the rehearsals. So we were sitting there waiting to be called to see something ... waiting ... people were passing by ... more people .... people getting coffee ... people talking on the phone etc. I was surprised how calm this huge filled with people office was. Thinking of the office i work in with 6 people including me. Sometimes you can't hear yourself thinking ...

We listened to the rehearsals of Gotta Go ... Give Me The Faith, Gotta Go Again, Give Me The Faith ... part of Gotta Go .. some Give Me The Faith again. I remember taking a look at Sara's watch. It was 1:10 by then ... but the read light wasn't on ... we were wondering what is going on. Then we heard Gotta Go again .... this time no one came out of that room or got in and by that time we realized that this must be the recording ... but we weren't sure. Then it was calm again ... and then we heard Give The Faith again. After that some more silence. Suddenly the door was opened and Simon, Staffan and Elin came out waving at us and storming into another direction. We were still sitting there waiting what is going to happen next.

Jenny seemed to be doing another small interview then she came out and asked us if we have had a chance to see it, we told her no. She seemed confused and told us that she has to do some more interviews and that is why she has to leave now. She said we should get in contact with the others to get the information about the interview. We were just looking at Jenny, while she was going along the corridor and suddenly she was turning around and said or do you want to come with me? Sure we wanted, so we grabbed our stuff and ran after her, since she was in a hurry.

The guy that had met us in the beginning was leading us out again. We tried to squeeze ourselves into the elevator but nothing happened. I found out that we had forgotten to hit the button... but I took the wrong one... It was like a comedy when we jumped out of the elevator found out that it was the wrong level and jumped in again. The elevator stopped on another level and we just said "full" lol

When we came outside a cab was already waiting for Jenny. I was just thinking about the car we had and that I just had paid a parking ticket until 3 ... it was around 2 by then. But anyway. Jenny said "jump in" and so we did...

Pictures from Karlstad

Yesterday we had a small trip through the city center, as you can see on the pictures the weather was beautiful:

Goodbye Karlstad - back to Gothenburg

Today was more or less a touring day and we will have 2 in i row. We left Karlstad today and went back to Gothenburg. On the way we stopped at IKEA since I had to make an important buy for my family, so that was the best to do it on the way.

The weather was rather bad today ... it's grey outside and doesn't really look like you wanna go out and spend some time outside. So we just had a small tour through the city and bought some food. Now we are back at the hostel again and relax before we will start our new trip tomorrow. Looking forward to go to Stockholm.

Currently waiting for Sara to come over :)

Karlstad day 2 - Jenny live

As mentioned started today early ... woke up at 6:30 and it was the first night since days that I sort of slept through. I had totally forgotten that this is gonna be a breakfast occasion so we of course ate before church.

We arrived at the Church around 8:00 am, but no one was in sight. So we were waiting some more time in the car. When some people started gathering we joined them. Sara continued her interviews which is always funny to watch. I find it amazing how easily Americans get to know people and I'm always wondering if I just met the talkactive Americans so far, if this a e the stiff German people who find that interesting or if it is that I don't easily get to know people ... I'm just not that mingeling person and I suck at small talk :) It's so different when I know people, but you have to come there first.

So by the time the gates opened Sara had spoken to half of the people outside and I had discovered Jenny inside just seeing her legs :) since the location where the concert took place was kind off in the basement at least from the outside. So we went in and found a place to hang our jackets. After that we went into the Church where Jenny and Jakob were talking to other people and were just about to go backstage.

When Jenny saw us she was waving and coming over to us giving us a hug. She asked how we are and told us that she was glad to see us again. She asked Sara about how her research and interviews are going and told us that she had arranged so that we could be there without to pay for the breakfast. Then Jenny took a look at my huge backpack and turned me around. I was wondering what she did but she just lifted it and took it off my shoulders. Then we were talking about Jakob's play and how funny it was. She told us that she would have to work a bit which means talking to people since that is what she is there for and that we should have some breakfast and enjoy ourselves. So off we went everyone in his direction. Sara who knew of course that this would be a breakfast ate something while Anja and I had just a juice and 2 Polly dark each :)

After the breakfast it was Jenny's and Jakob's turn. Jenny did a great lecture as always, she had those 2 people in stage again one that is the famous one and one who is playing her best friend and for the 10 time we could laugh about that one since it is always funny. They were performing "Aldrig Ensam" - one of my all time favorite cover versions from Jenny, "I Turn To You", "Hjälp Mig Jesus", "Give Me The Faith", "Moonshadow" and "Välsignelsen". Jenny sang also again "Jag lyfter ögon mot himmelen".

They got standing ovations so "Välsignelsen" was the encore. When the show has ended Jenny went to sign books and I was running outside since the car park had expired and we didn't want to risk a parking fine again. When I came in again I started to pack my equipment together. Jenny came from backstage talking to some women who wanted a signature in their books. I saw that Jenny was looking for a pen so I gave her mine and she was just smiling at me that I knew what she was looking for.

While Jenny went to sign books Anja and I were chatting with Jakob and Sara was interviewing more people. We had prepared a book for him to give him some present since he is always so nice with us. So we gave the photobook to him and were laughing at pictures inside. I had to go to the toilet then since I was about to explode while Anja and now also Sara were talking with Jakob about several things I don't have a clue about :) When I came back Jakob was just about to leave. When passing me he told me how glad he was we were there and that we will see each other again while we are in Sweden.

We got our stuff together and walked upstairs. We were waiting in the entrance to say bye to Jenny and I was waiting for my pen. Jenny was still signing books and talking to people and we were talking about the show and Sara's interviews. When Jenny was done she grabbed some candy and followed a women who wanted to talk to her in private. When she passed me she turned around again and put the candy in my hand. I was just laughing since this was so Jenny - that funny woman. We continued our talk and switched to candy and suddenly we were talking about lacorice and how odd Sara found it tasted. In this moment Jenny joined us so a small chat about candy happened again and then Sara asked if Jenny would like to leave a message for her fans out there. Of course she wanted, which you can see on Sara's blog. Then Jakob asked if we would like to listen to some of the songs and if we had headphones. I told him that I had headphones but then he had a better idea. We went down into the main church again and he plugged his phone on the stereo. He asked which song we wanted to listen to. "Here I Am" Jenny suggested laughing and I replyed a "No thank you". Anja decided for "Going Home" so we had this one first. It was great to sit in the church with the great accoustic and listen to Jenny's pop songs. After that we listened to "Spend This Night", "Air of Love", "Dying To Stay Alive"and "Natural Superstar". All songs were very fresh and had a cool Jenny sound. Which is supposed to mean that you could hear that they were somehow fitting together while being totally different. If the rest of the album is- and I'm convinced it is - fitting in as well, she did a really great piece of music, which will be on my CD player for months and drive my neighbours insane :)

While we were listening to the last song Jenny was taking a seat next to us asking us what we think. She told us that she had to leave soon but still she took some more time to talk with us about music and the coming things that will happen to promote her album. But then they had to leave and Sara also had to catch her bus back to Gothenburg while we would spend another night in Karlstad to have a look at the city and explore it.

So we were waving a last time at Jenny and Jakob and went back to our car so that Sara won't miss her bus.