Tyler's visit, part II

Wednesday brought a trip to Göteborg, or Gothenburg. We missed our train, learned some important lessons about travelling in Sweden, and got another ticket for the next train. It's a 3-or-so hour train ride from Lund, filled with some very pretty scenery, some geese that weren't Canadian or the white ones (!) and some moose/reindeer/elk/Swedish antlered animals. Even though we left in the sunshine, we arrived to...more clouds!

Jessica, who let us stay with her (thank you so much!!), picked us up from the train station and took us back to her incredibly cute apartment. It was amazingly large and beautiful. After dropping our things off and talking a bit, we went off exploring.We started with Kronhuset, the oldest building in Göteborg. It used to be an old grain/artillery/other things storage facility for the king.

From there we went down to the canal and looked around and poked our heads into the City Museum, which held the remnants of a Viking ship that dated back to 900 AD. I was pretty impressed.

We went through some parks along the canal, but I think Tyler was a little tired of the clouds (welcome to Sweden!) so we headed back for a delicious dinner with Jessica and her husband and sister. Both of us went to sleep pretty early because it had been another long day. Notice a theme?

Luckily on Thursday the weather was in our favor - the clouds stormed themselves away during the night, and it was SUNNY! so sunny, I couldn't keep my eyes open.
But it was nice to be able to explore in the sunshine. We walked through some more parks before meeting Jessica for lunch.After lunch she very kindly guided us along the river, telling us lots of interesting histories and showing us the giant dinosaur cranes.

We made it on our train this time, and settled in for the long ride back to Lund.

Friday was a recovery day, and I had to meet with a project group in the morning. We baked some semi-successful garlic-olive bread and some delicious cookies. I also convinced Tyler to bring a frisbee to Sweden, so I got to throw around for a bit - the first time in nearly three months. Good fun :-)
Today I unfortunately had to travel back to Copenhagen with him to send him on his way back to Boston. It's always hard to say good bye, but I'm glad that we were able to have an excellent week and I didn't have class at all! Incredibly coincidental, and absolutely wonderful.

But now my room is quiet and empty again, and I've got to do something for this project. I'd rather go to sleep :-) Tomorrow I'm spending all day at Krichansta again, this time helping Ira, another international student here, at the Sunday cafe. I'm not sure what we're making, but it's bound to be fun!