{"id":2506,"date":"2016-10-03T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fastlandstois.wordpress.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:02:26","slug":"birthday-shenanigans-and-date-night-on-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/03\/birthday-shenanigans-and-date-night-on-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday shenanigans and date night on the town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday was perfect as per usual.<br \/>\nFamily over for the obligatory \u00a0birthday-\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fika_(Sweden)\">fika<\/a>\u201d and lots of pressies that I actually wanted J<\/p>\n<p>Nail polish Fig Dig and Wine Stock: Check!!<br \/>\nNew awesome bamboo PJ: Check!!<br \/>\nNew facial cleanser Luna Go: Check!!<br \/>\nNew fab purple toilet bag: Check!!<br \/>\nNew make-up bag: Check!!<br \/>\nFlowers from Scotland: Check!!<br \/>\nFlowers from husband: Check!!<br \/>\nFlowers from children: Check!!<br \/>\nFlowers from parents: Check!!<br \/>\nDate-night gift card from parents: Check!!<br \/>\nShopping and dinner with mum: Check!!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2506 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161001_174223-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161001_174223-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161001_174223-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161001_174223-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161001_174223-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161001_174223.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2519'>\n\t\t\t\tAll dolled up for datenight\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1946-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2527\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2527'>\n\t\t\t\tFig Dig\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img-20161001-wa0001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2525\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2525'>\n\t\t\t\tSwimming with weeman \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img-20160923-wa0000-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2524\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2524'>\n\t\t\t\tSchoolphoto day\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142448-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142448-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142448-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142448-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142448-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142448.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2522'>\n\t\t\t\tLife elixir\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1941-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2515\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2515'>\n\t\t\t\tB-day LCHF chocolate cake \u00e1 la Mother in law\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142126-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142126-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142126-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_142126.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2521'>\n\t\t\t\tYES! Getting along\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_104920-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_104920-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_104920-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_104920-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_104920-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_104920-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161002_104920-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2520'>\n\t\t\t\tMe and Elis\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1975-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2518\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2518'>\n\t\t\t\tI promise she IS bright.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1939-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2513\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2513'>\n\t\t\t\tFlowers from Scotland\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1955-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2517\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2517'>\n\t\t\t\tHubby and Bine\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1950-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2516\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2516'>\n\t\t\t\tAutumn at Weemans school\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img-20161002-wa0001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2526\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2526'>\n\t\t\t\tAlonetime with grandma\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1940-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2514\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2514'>\n\t\t\t\tFlowers from my kids\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1938-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2512\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2512'>\n\t\t\t\tHarvest from our garden\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1936-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2511\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2511'>\n\t\t\t\tFlowers from husband\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dsc_1930-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2510\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2510'>\n\t\t\t\tEarly hours of birthday\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1474992410928-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2509\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2509'>\n\t\t\t\tPost-Kempo look.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Awesome to say the least.<br \/>\nMy mother has stayed with us during the past week to work on the Island and will stay another week yet\u2026which is fab! Me and husband had the perfect babysitters on Saturday night when we hit the town of Visby for dinner with Bine and Elis. Dad flew over to see the kids (and mum) and left Sunday lunch. It was truly great to see him.<br \/>\nDinner was brilliant at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillovisby.se\/\">Amarillo<\/a> and drinks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolaget.fr\/\">Bolaget<\/a> was easily at par when we could sit outside in the warm autumn night with drinks for hours\u2026on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of October. Amazing.<br \/>\nAh yes&#8230;we actually visited Visby Artmuseum after dinner. Yes Mam, they had a night-time-open-extravaganza going on so in we went. Tr\u00e9s cultural.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2532\" style=\"width: 3840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2532\" src=\"https:\/\/fastlandstois.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/dsc_1964.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_1964\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elis and Hubby @ Visby art museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-2534 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fastlandstois.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"img_20161003_082454.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454.jpg 2160w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161003_082454-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\nToday: Dress and new boots at work. #nuffsaid.<br \/>\nI have coffee to sip and stuff to fiddle with.<br \/>\nUntil later dear friends, until later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday was perfect as per usual. Family over for the obligatory \u00a0birthday-\u201cfika\u201d and lots of pressies that I actually wanted J Nail polish Fig Dig and Wine Stock: Check!! New awesome bamboo PJ: Check!! New facial cleanser Luna Go: Check!! New fab purple toilet bag: Check!! New make-up bag: Check!! Flowers from Scotland: Check!! &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,17,19,22],"tags":[42,56,61,84,472,576],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-friendship","category-husband","category-married","category-parenthood","category-shintai-kempo","tag-amarillo","tag-bineelis","tag-bolaget","tag-datenight","tag-shintai-kempo-visby","tag-visby","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kahlbom.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}