Relaxation Defined

Published on Aug. 25, 2003 in Sweden

Gooood morning!  It has been five days since I last wrote, and it has been one of th e most relaxing five days on the entire trip!!I

I somehow did make all my connections and Falun, not being that big, Maria and Kerstin were waiting for me at the train station with Maria's father.  We jumped into the Audi, laughed that I was actually in their town, and drove off to Kerstin's house.  After we arrived a few of their friends were there, CC and another person whose name I don't really remember.  I was a little sick so only had one beer, and after that we all went off to a bar.  Marians or something like that was the name, and I got another drink there.  Good time.  We laughed and talked -- I met a few more people that night.  We all went out separate ways and I wandered back to Kerstins house.  We both went to sleep pretty quick, they made up a spare bedroom for me to sleep in.  I slept, GRREAT!  Kerstin woke up early to see the doctor, and woke me up at about 11:00 or so when she got back home.  We had breakfast on her balcony, and then left to meet up with a few more people.  Maria and Kerstin and CC and me all went to a Cafe and to the lake, just outside the town.  I had waffles, finally, and they were pretty yummy.  Everybody else just ate other food.  We saw the house Kerstin's family just bought, as a little cottage, and then came back into town.  After arriving back at the house Kerstin and I ate Moose, which was a first time for me.  It was in a stew, and could have been beef for all I know.

We left and wandered downtown and they gave me another tour.  Eventually we wandered over to CC's place and watched a movie, Layla 4-ever.  It was about a Russian girl being sold as a prostitute -- very very sad movie, but well produced.  We all wandered home and Kerstin and I talked for a while in the kitchen.  Life, feminism -- the good stuff.  Eventually we started to get tired and both went to our rooms and fell asleep.  The next day I don't even remember what happened -- I think I left for Maria's pretty early in the morning and we just wandered around.  I wrote a lot of emails.  Kerstin brought my things over later that day because she was going to Oland, an island to the east of Sweden.  Maria and I had dinner with her parents, and her brother, and then went out to one of the bars and met up with some more people.  We met a girl named Rebeka there, and a few other guys.  One of the guys told me a pick up line, and I asked Rebeka if it was good or bad, and she said "good, you could get any girl."  Maria was shaking her head.  I asked her later and she said that it met something like "my flashlight and your fish," apparently a Swedish inside joke.  We wandered home and fell asleep.  The next day I will call Movie day.  I don't even know what we did, but we just laid around for a while.  I remember!  In the afternoon we went to the Mine, what used to be a huge copper mine.  It was pretty cool, but like a lot of other mines I have seen.  I also talked to ana online, hurrah!!  She was on MSN when I luckily checked my email.  Enjoying her companionship a lot, will meet her in Prague on the 27th.  We talked for an hour or so, and Maria would come in and laugh at me because of the big smile I had!  For dinner we had pizza, which was alright, and then started watching movies.  We watched The Sum of All Fears and Usual Suspects.  Maria fell asleep at the end of the seconds movie, SOAF, but I finished it and wandered into my bedroom and fell asleep.  Woke up the next day pretty l ate, noon or so, at food, watched TV with Maria's dad, wrote emails, and then we wandered around the town.  At about 4:00 we had dinner, meatloaf, ;and then watched movies for the rest of the night.  Rainman on TV, Two Weeks Notice with CC and Rebeka, then Road to Perdition.  I fell asleep after a while, maybe at 2:00, after writing thank you cards to everyone. Woke up rather early, 8:00 or so, took a shower, and was dropped off at the train station for my 9:13 train.  On my way to Munich!!  And I am going to eat a sandwich, so gbye!!

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