A full day in Arena Nord has come to its end and I have to say that it was a pretty great day. Mostly because I could see how much Mikael was shining when he walked around tinkering with his camera, finding the right angles and talking to people. He met two established photographers with whom he talked to a lot. One from New Zealand but lives in Gothenburg and the other from Finland.

My part of this trip was just to be a cute sidekick. I sat by the podium, playing Pokemon GO and reading my book. Every now and then talking to Mikael or walking around a bit. The Brew Festival didn’t open until 14:00. But when it did, we had Bao bun street food. They never go wrong! We got beer glasses and pollettes to buy beer but we bought anything but beer. Hot shots and drinks, hehe.

We saw some amazing tattoos getting rewards and we both of course got inspired. Mikael got one just a week ago, but I hadn’t gotten a new one in 3,5 years. It’s just that my idea will take me off the beach court for a bit, so I haven’t really wanted to actualize this yet. But there is a natural gap during Christmas?

The ferry home left at 20:00. We walked quickly from the fair with a stop at the hotel on the way to pick up a bag. We weren’t really stressed but we walked quickly and also managed to keep warm in the chilly October night air.

As soon as we got onboard, I started to feel real funky. I thought I was drunk at first, but I couldn’t have been after just one drink (the shot was much earlier in the day). Then my brain slowed down, I couldn’t process words and definitely not connect names to actual people. If I didn’t recognize the symptoms, I probably would have been scared that I had a stroke. But just a mild version of the aura migraine I got the first (and only) time in 2018 after a work week of hell. I was “out” for only 2 hours. But I was sad that I couldn’t spend that dead time reading. Trust me, I tried, but I couldn’t for the life of me understand what I was reading. So weird. I hope migraines won’t be a recurring event for me now.

All in all, a very nice weekend with my other half in our neighboring country on a super spontaneous trip to a tattoo fair.

So, Mikael and I did something super spontaneous. His new photography hobby took us all the way to Fredrikshamn in Denmark for a tattoo festival where he will do some photoshooting.

The plan was for us to get here today at noon so we could have some time to tourist around this town. But late yesterday we received an email from Stena Line telling us they rebooked our ticket to the 15:45 ferry. They sent us the email too late so we couldn’t call them and ask why. Apparently, we could have gotten tickets if we rebooked with a vehicle. Like what? So weird!

Anyway, we had already taken time off work for today, so we spent it eating brunch in Gothenburg which was nice as well a random Friday in October.

On the ferry, we got great seats right next to the bar. I played a bunch of Pokemon, but then people around us started to get too drunk so Mikael listened to a book and I listened to music while reading. Not too bad.

We checked in at Best Western at 19:30 and walked over to Arena Nord where the Ink, Beer and Dart festival was held. We got our wrist bands, started walking around for a bit and eventually found Think, where Mikael got his second tattoo a week ago. We had talked to them about going to this festival to practice a bit before doing a job for them at their studio so they can get some cool shots and video footage to promote their studio.

So tomorrow, we will be there at 10am when Sanna, one of the artists there has a full day client. I will be there for support 🙂

We also took a tour in the beer hall where we ended up talking to one of the organizers who offered us a “hot shot” but not exactly a hot shot. More spices and a break from all the beer there. It was good. He said it was thanks for us giving him tips on what to do for a student field trip to Gothenburg in March. Super nice!

We walked back to the hotel, I already got blisters on my feet from my several years old winter boots. But since it’s the beginning of the season, the blisters are there…