One of those weekends you just dream about.

Sometimes it just seems that stars and planets align around me and everything is perfect.

It started this Friday when I was invited for dinner at Lebanon Meza Lounge with Skåne and her friends. We ordered in 25 meze plates and went bonkers. The food was incredible, diverse and most of the time perfectly balanced. I will never go back to that place again though. We had ordered an extra portion of one of the dishes and waited over 40 minutes. Finally we asked what happened to the food and apparently he forgot, the kitchen had closed and the chef had gone home. So far, that’s pretty bad but it got worse. When we looked at the bill they had charged us for the food we never got! By then I was pretty tired of their low quality service so I went back and told them to correct it and said that they should compensate us. They didn’t. They just took of the charge that was wrong and that was that. I think when you pay 300 kr per person for some meze… well, needless to say I won’t be going back. The day after I gave them a call as well, talked to the manager and told him what had happened, at least someone will get their nuts roasted.

On Saturday I was first in Kista, at the Hoodsfred festival. From out of nowhere the surprise guest of the day got on stage, MONTEL JORDAN! He performed his super hits, “Let’s get it on tonight” and “This is how we do it”. Most people were under 20 years old so they had no idea about who he was. Me and a couple of others older people went absolutely nuts. We used to rip the dance floor with those songs. Stephen Simmons performed as well and was looking really “Commonish” with his beard, weird sun glasses and otherwise totally fly clothes.

After that we went to the University to check out the Re:publik festival. The mood was so different there. In Kista it was mostly none Swedes and no alcohol. At the university it was mostly Swedes and everyone was so ridiculously drunk. Anyway, we went into a building at the festival to check out the hiphop/rnb dance floor. We arrived at 11 PM and went absolutely bananas on the dance floor until 3 AM. I met some awesome people, especially this totally fly chica from Iran. Natural, humble and kind… and probably married hehe. Just my luck hehe.

So it became Sunday. We started off the day at the beautiful view of Stockholm, near Slussen. Then I went to meet up with some other friends at Kungsträdgården to try out the food festival there. It was a beautiful, sunny and warm afternoon with lots of lovely food and even lovelier company. It became late afternoon and we walked by the water from Kungsträdgården to Slussen, turned left and walked up to a cosy restaurant called Hermans. They only served vegetarian food, had the BBQ lit up and the smell from all the veggies was a bit overwhelming but set the mood really nice. We sat their and had a bunch of desserts. From out of nowhere a friend of my friend showed up.

We actually started to get hungry a while later and took a nice walk to work up an apetite. We ended up at a lovely Greek restaurant and had some Souvlaki and drinks. Maria, her man Shmoel, me and Maria’s friend Rosie who I had just met. After dinner me and Rosie were still restless but the others needed to get up early for work so they went home. Me and Rosie ended up at a place on Medborgarplatsen and had a nice chat. We exchanged numbers. Why am I telling you this? Well…

Today it’s Monday and it’s around midnight. I’ve had yet another laid back and lovely day, with Rosie. We had lunch, went out for a long walk down to the lake and the farm, looked at the horses and took some nice pictures. We spent the whole day together just chilling, talking and getting to know eachother. It’s so awesome to meet friends of friends because, well… obviously you like your friends so there is a good chance you will like any friend of theirs as well. So, now I’m on the train on my way back home (1 hour and 20 minutes, Stockholm is pretty big!) feeling so glad, so… at ease and just happy about the fact that there are so many beautiful, kind and loving people in the world. Thank you Shamo, Maria, Shmoel, Maria G, Rosie, Ulrika and everyone else, I've been in heaven all weekend. This has definetly been a weekend (and Monday) to remember.