As we travel around the country, even driving back from the airport, we continually notice how comfortable we feel in this country, how familiar it feels to us. But we continue to do this as the topography changes! Yesterday, we decided part of it looked like "Colorado with the Lakes of Minnesota and the backwoods of Wisconsin." We often think it looks like the U.P., most often think it looks like that and upper michigan. This prompted Ken to note that we could have taken a driving trip across the U.P, then driven to Plymouth to the Ikea for dinner, and saved ourselves the cost of the airfare! (joking, of course, we're loving our adventures)
Today we slept in late, then Dan and Pat went into Motala to the Tourist Bureau to find out about bus and train info. We managed to get all the info we needed, then drove back home, got ready to go, and the four of us went into Linkoping to pick up our friends, Kathleen and Linda, who were visiting us on their way to Stockholm.
We walked around a bit, and bought a birthday cake at a bakery for Kathleen, who's "big" birthday is in a few days. (It was a lovely little cake, by the way) We then headed over to the train station.
O.k., disclaimer here for people who are tired of reading about Pat's bathroom adventures, don't read this paragraph. i had to go, and this was a pay toilet, which annoys me alot. Anyway, the coin didn't open the door, it was broken, i guess, and a nice Swedish woman tried to help. When she realized it didn't work, she said, in what was Swedish, "sheet"! i then turned to her, nodded, and said, in English, "Yes, oh shit"! We both burst out laughing loudly. toilet annoyance being a universal language!
We picked up our new guests, but because our car is small, Hillary and I took the bus back from Linkoping to Motala, where Dan and Ken would pick us up. We had a great time on the bus, it was relaxing and a pretty ride. Got to see the drawbridge up on the Gota Canal and a sailboat pass through. Nice to just relax together.
The guys picked us up and we bought groceries. Hillary and Ken cooked a great stirfry for us all, and we sang Happy Birthday to Kathleen. Later, Linda regaled us with her funny stories, like about how she has a pet rat that visits the balcony of her condo, how cute she thinks he is!
Linda, by the way, has walked all the San Francisco stairways that has been Pat's other quest, for those of you who followed that blog in february. They were tired, we were all tired, went to bed early. They were o.k. with the barn and the chamber pot.
Weather was very bad today, by the way, cold and rainy. Pat
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