dan collier

On the 31st of January, Jax and I went sledding in nearby Bellevueparken.

my photo &photos posted by: dan  @  05 Feb 2010 11:20 | Comments (0)

Yesterday sailing was great, blowing about 10 knots, and we made it up Rödlöga before deciding to stay nearby on an islet next to Storskäret. Today, the wind was blowing 15-20 knots with choppy seas, and sailing was a challenge but we eventually made it back to our anchoring spot from a few days ago on Norrö.

Below are some pictures of the last few days.

I haven’t updated the route we took yet, but you can find Storskäret here.

my photo &photos &sweden &travel posted by: dan  @  30 Jul 2009 14:45 | Comments (0)

Johanna, Naomi, her friend Leah, Jaxon, and I are sailing this week (July 27 – Aug 2) in the archipelago between Stockholm and the Baltic sea on a Delphia 28 GT. The Swedish ideal of tying up to an unmarked (and for me unknown) rock cliff in just a meter or two of water takes some nerve, but so far so good.

I’m tracking the trip on Google Maps, if you’re interested.

my photo &photos &sweden &travel posted by: dan  @  28 Jul 2009 12:40 | Comments (0)

Naomi and Jaxon 2002

my photo &photos posted by: dan  @  14 Jun 2009 10:37 | Comment (1)

Below are some photos from Julafton (Christmas Eve) at Johanna’s parents’ house at Bullandö. Happy holidays!

my photo &photos &sweden posted by: dan  @  25 Dec 2008 17:25 | Comments (0)

In Sweden, to start first grade a child is generally expected to be 7 years old by January 1 of that school year. Parents with children that just make the cut-off seem as often as not to wait a year to enroll their children. So even though Jaxon went to kindergarten on Cape Cod last year, he will only be 6½ years old on the 1st of January 2009, and the bi-lingual school we wanted him to attend insisted he join the kindergarten class.

When we asked Jaxon about attending kindergarten again, he wasn’t too happy at first. But when we told him about kindergarten here – how much playtime they have and the fun things they do, he reconsidered. His comment was “Playing is what I do best!”. The academic aspect of kindergarten has been much less intense here compared to Cape Cod, but adjusting to a new primary language and new friends has kept Jax plenty busy.

Below is his class photo from this year. While he is the tallest in the class, he is far from the oldest.

I hope to eventually receive and post Naomi’s class photo, but it seems we lost the requisite forms required to appease the multiple layers of bureaucracy necessary to receive our copy of the photo.

my photo &photos &sweden posted by: dan  @  20 Dec 2008 16:42 | Comments (0)