IKEA – Page 2 – Puma Swede Blog

Feels like the days here in Sweden fly by faster than I can say IKEA. All of a sudden an other week gone by and it’s already August! Almost Christmas! And my birthday and I get older! Holy shit! OK, maybe a bit dramatic, it’s all good hahaaahaaa….

Last weekend me & my friend Karina went kayaking for a weekend. Considered eventual disasters scenarios that we could encounter on the water. Like being run over by big boats, tipping over, the possibility of shitty weather which is like a 90% chance here in Sweden. We were in luck though! Stayed in our kayaks without being run over by boats and the sun was shining 🙂 We bought a 3 day package from Dalarö Kajak. Included everything (kayaks, tents, sleeping bags with thin mattress, camping kitchen) plus one night in a hotel with a 3 course dinner, breakfast buffet and lunch package.

Heading out. They required life vests even though I carry my own ‘floating devices’ 😉

After about 5h kayaking with a lunch stop, we found our own island to camp at the first night. This is not hard in the Swedish archipelago since there are a lot of small islands. Cooked some food, drank wine and dressed up. Who said camping can’t be glamorous? Then a magical sunset and after that the mosquitos came in herds. Only downfall…

Slept pretty good in the tent. It was a snug 2 person tent so you can forget about social distancing. The next day we spent on the island tanning and swimming. Ducks came by and had lunch with us 🙂

Around 3pm we jumped in our kayaks again and paddled to Smådalarö Gård. Super nice place and we went straight to the sauna. Karina is part Finn too, so sauna is like our second home! She has this particular style, or actually no style at all, when she jumps in the water LOL. Unfortunately I have to admit I’m no better and can’t dive… I just don’t post any proof of myself, just my friend, sorry Karina 😉

The dinner was so good and it felt like sleeping on clouds after a night in the tent 🙂

Stuffed ourself (or at least me) at breakfast. Literally…

Relaxed a bit and gathered our strength to paddle back. Well, I couldn’t resist a few selfies in the mirror before leaving…

If you visit Sweden, or are living here, I can highly recommend this trip! 10 out of 10. Great service, price and so much fun!

Karina is like a band aid. She can’t get enough of me 😉 So this weekend we were a few celebrating her birthday too…

I had the luxury of having my make up done by a couple of 12 year olds before dinner. I call the style Las-Vegas-sparkle. They just kept adding, but I must admit they did a pretty good job with what they had to work with hahhaaaaa…

This week there will be a 3 day hike at Jämtlandstriangeln. With Karina obviously, who else? My sister is coming too. I love hiking and I’m so excited about this! What you been up to?

Sunny greetings from Sweden! The sun is shining for now…

Puma

On the flight over I watched an interesting program about how we make decisions. More like how we “behave” in certain situations, and what our actions are based on when making a specific decision.

One example was of a woman dressed in business attire who falls on the street. Do people stop to help her? This was filmed with hidden cameras. Yes, people stopped and helped her up, but then the same woman was dressed in trashy and dirty clothes and fell. No one stopped and helped her. These situations always make me think about what I would’ve done in a situation like that? I obviously want to think I would’ve helped both, well dressed or not, but I guess I can’t give an honest answer until I’ve been in that situation.

Another made up example. A train is rushing on the tracks without brakes. If it continues straight it will run-over 4 people, but if you pull a switch, the tracks will divert the running train to a sidetrack and only one person on the tracks is killed. Obviously everyone thought it’s better to pull the switch and divert the train so it “only” kills one person, but what happens if that one person is a relative of yours? Then people sacrificed the 4 people. It had to do with how we want to “save” our lineage, and obviously the fact that we know the person. Same situation, but you stand up on a bridge. You can push a stranger to fall in front of the train. That person dies, but you save the 4 people + 1 person on the tracks. No one wanted to push a person to their death because that was considered murder, but they could pull a switch that diverted the train and killed 1 person instead of 4.

Last example with a hidden camera showed people getting too much change back from a cashier. Do you tell the cashier and give the money back? Or keep it? There were 2 different situations. One where the cashier was nice, and the other one where she was rude. When she was nice, all the people told her she gave them too much change and returned it to her. When she was rude and unprofessional, all of the customers kept the extra change. This one I think most of us have experienced, and I have to admit that I haven’t always been honest. Like if they forgot to add say a appetizer on my check, I haven’t said anything. After being out partying in Stockholm, (when I was younger and poorer I have to add), and wanting to eat McDonald’s after, I would just walk up in front of the long lines at 5am and said that I’m still waiting for my Big Mac. I obviously hadn’t ordered or paid for it and it always worked. I “accidentally” rolled out with some free shelves from IKEA too once because they were in the bottom of the stroller-thingy and the cashier didn’t see them. Sorry Mickey D’s & IKEA 🙁 Have you done anything similar or are you an honest citizen?

Kisses, Puma

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Wroooooom…

Decisions