Today is day 2 in Sweden. Its 12:30 and we just woke up! Jet lag will do that to you I guess. At first I was kind of pissed for wasting the morning, but then I realized I have 5 months of mornings left and that sleeping in was probably a pretty good idea. Yesterday was quite the adventure. We met a friend on the first flight, Hugh, who became our travel companion for a while. It was very interesting finding our way from the Minneapolis flight to the Stockholm flight, but eventually we made it just fine. The long flight from Chicago to Stockholm went really well. It was long, but three movies: The Bucket List, Going the Distance and Big made the time fly a lot faster. I actually got to sleep quite a bit on the plane too, except a baby decided it was time to scream for an hour and a half when the lights turned off! Oh well, it didn’t bother me all that much. When we arrived in Sweden, we met a kid named Lars, who is our age from Colorado. He is actually a full time student at Uppsala University, so he was able to help us a ton finding a train and getting into the city and everything. I think he is going to take us on a tour of the city later today too. In the morning, we kept ourselves occupied by taking a bus out to Ikea and exploring the city. What a blessing it is to have Dawn with us… who happens to be fluent in Swedish. A Gustavus exchange student, Ida, who happened to be visiting her family back home in Uppsala over J-term showed us the good places for shopping, helped us get cell phones and took us out for dinner. It was the perfect way to end the night! By 8:30, we couldn’t stand it any longer and gave in to sleeping. It was a wonderful first day! Oh! And we got to experience in full the sun rising at 9 and setting by 4. It is fun the way that they keep the streets lit at night though. It definitely doesn’t feel as dark as it is. There are large flood lamps, as well as trees and garlands of Christmas lights, and the lights coming from the stores. It was pretty magical.
Pictures to come... sorry!
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