Sweeeeeden

So sorry I've been MIA for almost a month...No worries though, I come bearing gifts!  I just got back from a long weekend in Gothenberg, Sweden, visiting my good friend from Semester at Sea, Mario.  He was in town for a couple of weeks visiting his cousin.  It was only a train ride away from here in Akre, so I popped over for a visit.  (Almost missed my train and about had a heart attack, but that is a story for another time.)  Had a GREAT time!

Reunited and it feels so good! (Yea, we're 23.)

Downtown Gothenberg

I was hoping for better weather than we've been having here in Norwizzle...meh, not so much.

Mario's cousin Chris made us a bomb dinner!  

Ready to see what Sweden has to offer.

Marstrand, a summer town off the coast of Sweden.

So quaint

A little chilly

Mario, pointing to Trygg-Hansa:  "I think this is the name of the village that we're in right now."

Chris:  "Uh...that means life vest in Swedish."

We wandered around a fort in Marstrand...

I love how they built on top of the existing topography, instead of demolishing it.

Swedish meatballs!

We made our way to the border of Norway and Sweden.  

So I went on a trip to Sweden, but then making my way back to Norway.  Go fig.

Ventured into "Old Fredrikstad"

Discovered these delicious chocolate desserts we named "Poufies."  It was a tasty sweet whipped like cream in the middle, covered with a chocolate shell and sprinkled w/coconut.  MMMMMM.

Packing our lives away.