Weekend trip to Minneapolis

Swedes might think what they want about IKEA while at home, but if they'd move abroad, they would probably do like me - travel at least 7 hours oneway to the hearest one, and get loads of stuff. And cheese. And kaviar. Flatbread. Dammsugare (aka punschrulle). And at the same time be extatically happy about it. Weekend trips are nice - you get to go somewhere, but still not lose any valuable working time. This past weekend kept a steady temperature of about 30 degrees, so I was enjoying it a lot. An American asked us, upon hearing where we had travelled from: "Travelling south to enjoy some of our heat?" (fyi: Wpg had the same temp, and there's as far as I know no difference in climate between the 2 locations - but Canada has a certain reputation). "Yeah, I asked the neighbour to take care of our pet polar bear, so we could take the weekend off. And it's funny - already at the border crossing, one hour south of Winnipeg, the temperature rises from 30 to 90 degrees!" I didn't say that of course... But it would have been fun... 

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