We got home yesterday afternoon after an action-packed three days in Byske. The trip started out rather dramatically when Petra ran head-first into the frame of an open window at the next-door cabin and cut her head open less than an hour after we arrived. As head wounds are wont to do, the cut bled profusely and it took my mom and me several anxious minutes to determine where the blood was coming from, as she was positively covered in red. At that point Olof was still a couple of hours from arriving and I feared I was going to have to call him with instructions to meet me at the hospital instead of at the cabin, but after we got the blood slowed down to a manageable level, I could see that the cut was just a a little divot no more than a centimeter long. My mom and Tage hurried over to the little store to buy acetaminophen while I bandaged the cut, and after we dosed her up and she rested on the couch for about an hour, she was as right as rain.

Luckily, the rest of our stay involved mostly action that was on the funner side of things, and Petra didn’t have to miss out on anything due to her injury. The kids partook of nearly all the activities the campground has to offer, swimming and driving pedal cars and playing mini-golf and spending most of their savings on various gewgaws. Yrsa, being used to swimming in an indoor pool, wasn’t having any of the outdoor pool where the other kids spent much of their time, but she was plenty content just to run around and entertain herself while my mom and I sat poolside. We stayed away from the beach this time, probably mostly due to the fact that shade was much easier to come by near the pool. My arms are still a little tender from a nasty sun rash I got a couple of weeks ago, and even with SPF 50 slathered on my arms I didn’t want to risk much sitting in the direct sun. Given that we have two nice beaches here at home, as well as an indoor pool, the outdoor pool was more exotic for the kids anyway, and though they went down to the beach to play some, they weren’t especially interested in swimming there.

Olof was able to work from Byske on Thursday and Friday, so he didn’t have to make the trek to Skellefteå after all, meaning that he was able to sleep a little later both mornings and was on hand to help out with the kids some as well. Though the kids had all been excitedly planning camping out in the tent, Tage was the only one of them who slept there all three nights. The three girls all joined Mom and me in the cabin the second night, with Brynja returning to the tent with the guys for the final sleep. All in all, it was another successful trip, especially because the weather was much nicer this year than last, with the sun and heat broken up rather pleasantly by occasional thunder and rainstorms.