So thanks to my friend Zeke, my son and I were invited to a seder. It was the first ever, so we didn´t have a clue what to expect – but such a wonderful evening it became.

First, I thought my son looked fantastic in a kippah:

My son and Zeke (my son really loves him, thinks he´s way cool):

For those of you who doesn´t follow me on Instagram, here´s a phone pic of what I wore:

Anyway: the evening was wonderful as I said. Around 30 people who all welcomed us like we were old friends, and they helped us through all the parts of the dinner (it is a bit difficult when you´ve never done it before). I was most impressed by how much the kids were involved in every step – even my son read some of the text which almost made me fall of my chair..!

I mean seriously; I get shy speaking in front of people I know and he just delivers in a second language in front of a bunch of strangers..! Kids are amazing! Also; in like 30 minutes he made a new friend (named Jonah) so he´ll email him when we get home.

So great, love my rascal.

And there was singing, discussing, laughing and teasing for hours – my heart was warm when we had to leave so I hugged the hosts so hard it probably cracked their ribs.

I´ll never forget that experience, that´s for sure.

Tomorrow we´re heading home to Sweden and that feels perfect; we´re beginning to miss hubby and youngest rascal. It is awesome to go on vacation, but it´s equally awesome to get home again – I also feel the itch to check up on my plants and cherry tree so everything is OK.

I will post more pics from Washington when I´m at home, do take care until then!

(Linking up with Wednesdays around the world)

First; I told you I was meeting Mia at Arlanda airport before we left – and I also told you she´s cute as a button:

 (impossible to see she´s been in the air for like 14 hours or so)

I was so glad we got the chance to meet, Mia is one of my oldest friend (along with her twin sister Anna) and we´ve followed eachother through the awkward days of the early teens to these days when we´re actually married with big children. Unfortunately we live far from eachother, but every time we meet it´s like we´ve never been apart.

Friends like that are priceless.

So on to the vacation; I´m deeply impressed by my oldest rascal. In total we were in the air for 9.5 hours + waiting time, transfer and standing in line – the kiddo didn´t complain once.

Of course we had to see the White House at once when we headed for town:

Then we continued our first day with seeing all memorials and must-see´s:

It´s the first time I´ve managed to come in time for all the wonderful blooming – hurray! A cab driver told me that I can thank the previously cold weather for that, now however it´s really warm and wonderful like a swedish summer.

And then we visited the Air & Space museum which was a blast – will tell you about that in my next post though so you don´t drown in pics.

So far sweeties, this vacation has been everything a rascal and his mommy could ask for. How lucky we are!

Ok, so today I´ve finished a crazy, crazy work day and then rushed to the train station where I met up with hubby (who had our luggage with him) and rascals.

Kissed youngest rascal and hubby goodbye, jumped on train with oldest rascal – and somewhere after an hour or so I actually started to relax.

Now we´re resting in our tiny room at the airport and my plan is to continue doing just that until I meet up with my friend Mia, who happen to be a stewardess. She´s one of my oldest friends and cute as a button.

And then we´ll almost be on our way – early tomorrow morning we´ll hop on the plane.

As some of you might remember, I´m a bit afraid of flying (at start and landing) – so a thought would be appreciated.

I´ll talk to you as soon as I can – but wohoo, Washington DC – here we come!