Tyler comes to Sweden

Again, I'm terrible at blogging in regular intervals. Since last update...who knows. My first class is mostly done - I have a presentation on Tuesday (which I am not at all ready for) and a question session on Thursday or Friday and then my exam on the 27th. April 2 I start my second course, so things are flying by.

Tyler came to visit this past week! I wish he were still here, but we had a lot of fun roaming around the countryside.

Saturday he arrived, completely sleep deprived because he couldn't sleep on the plane, but he struggled up through the day and did quite well at it.

Sunday was mostly a restoration day as well, trying to get his sleep schedule and eating schedule in sync with a completely different time zone. We took a walk up to the highest point in Lund. It was cloudy and grey and drizzling, of course, but it was a lot of fun.ahh, McDonalds. You can get the Chicago Star right now! Next comes the Vegas Classic and then the Texas Grande. mmm Tastes of America. (we didn't actually get anything from this restaurant, but we did watch Supersize Me!)

Monday was a journey to Helsingborg. We were hoping for good weather and interesting sights and got...terrible weather and many closed things. But we did get to see the Kärnen which is a remnant of a Danish fortress.


The southern part of Sweden used to be ruled by Denmark, and in fact, from Helsingborg, Denmark is only a 20 minute ferry ride away. But we decided the weather was too obnoxiously gross to merit paying for a ferry and walking around outside in more grossness.
(he looks surprisingly happy for being about to be eaten by a ferocious dragon)

Just when we decided that nothing could improve the cold and rainy day (yes, the boy from Boston admitted that it could be cold in Sweden, too!) and we got back on the train for home, it started snowing these giant fluffly flakes. Unfortunately, the train was in motion so we couldn't get off and run around in it. yeesh. But it snowed over the night in Lund, so I got to see (and eat, and throw) some snow! second time in five years. Excellent. I'll put some pictures up later, right now all the pictures I have are the ones from Tyler's camera, and he was sleeping through the snow ;-)

Tuesday was Lund Day! We walked into town and ate at a cafe that served me very nice food, but the day's dish was veal somethingorother and was kind of odd. It almost tasted like mashed potatoes and gravy (to me) but who knows. They had very good soup and bread. Then we walked around the town a little bit, so I could show Tyler where I was. The snow was pretty much all melted at this point.
I probably didn't even need the hat.

After a bit of walking around, we went inside the Domkyrka (cathedral) built in the 1100s sometime. It's a pretty old place.
It has an astronomical clock and a crypt, both of which were incredibly cool.
Tuesday was finished with some baking at Krichansta and then a lot of sleeping. There was lots of walking today (and no squirrel sightings :-( ) so we were beat.