Seriously, summer lasted about a week. Too bad for us we were no longer staying on the coast. Anyway, it seemed really, really hot. I don't think the temperature got above the high 80s; it just felt hotter. Poor little Sonja would redden up like a tomato instantly in the heat. Most of the 3 days we spent touring in and around Norrköping we spent trying to find places to cool off. We went to the lake a couple of days and found a nice wading pool another day.
Linnea, always the Fashion Queen
Sonja cooling off with a cool drink
Linnea trying to be friendly with the not-so-friendly hedgehog
Sharing candy from the candy factoryWe then spent a day in Kalmar visiting the castle. It was a lot of fun because we got to go on a tour and they had lots of activities for kids. Linnea even got to practice jousting on a horse!
After our day trip we spent 3 nights in a state/province of Sweden named, Småland. We stayed in a really nice youth hostel out in the country and enjoyed biking and visiting the region famous for glass. After visiting a hand blown glass factory Linnea decided she wanted to be a glass blower when she grows up! The youth hostel we stayed at was very different than those I experienced in Europe during college. It was a nice old house (like you would image a B&B) and we had our own room - with a double/twin bunk bed and our own sink. We shared bathrooms and showers with others on our floor but the place was not full so it felt private. We had to bring our own sheets and towels and we had full use of the common kitchen.
Next, we were on our way back to Lund to pick up Matthew's parents! We spent 3 days in Lund showing them around the city and letting them get acclimated to the new time zone (we're 9 hours ahead of them on the west coast). Since we couldn't stay at the house we'd been renting because the owner was using it for the summer, our good friends Karin and Jakob were very kind in letting us stay at their apartment while they were gone on vacation. The weather was pleasantly warm, but not at all hot.
Our next post will be about the first part of our journey with Far Far and Far Mor. We traveled through Norway, stopping in Oslo along the way, to Northern Sweden.
After our day trip we spent 3 nights in a state/province of Sweden named, Småland. We stayed in a really nice youth hostel out in the country and enjoyed biking and visiting the region famous for glass. After visiting a hand blown glass factory Linnea decided she wanted to be a glass blower when she grows up! The youth hostel we stayed at was very different than those I experienced in Europe during college. It was a nice old house (like you would image a B&B) and we had our own room - with a double/twin bunk bed and our own sink. We shared bathrooms and showers with others on our floor but the place was not full so it felt private. We had to bring our own sheets and towels and we had full use of the common kitchen.
Next, we were on our way back to Lund to pick up Matthew's parents! We spent 3 days in Lund showing them around the city and letting them get acclimated to the new time zone (we're 9 hours ahead of them on the west coast). Since we couldn't stay at the house we'd been renting because the owner was using it for the summer, our good friends Karin and Jakob were very kind in letting us stay at their apartment while they were gone on vacation. The weather was pleasantly warm, but not at all hot.
Our next post will be about the first part of our journey with Far Far and Far Mor. We traveled through Norway, stopping in Oslo along the way, to Northern Sweden.
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