Glögg

I just had some wine called glögg with Malin; you put almonds and raisins in it. The day was quite successful overall, but I’ll share just one story. This morning, Ben was supposed to catch a bus downtown at 9:00. I woke at 9:00 because of drilling in the room next to me, wandered into the living room, and saw Ben asleep on the sofa, shoes on and otherwise ready to go. His plan had been to stay up all night, although I said goodnight at 5:30, so “all night” wasn’t going to be that long. Somehow, he ended up on the couch and crashed. He had to be at the airport by noon, and reaching it required a 45-minute train ride downtown followed by an 85-minute bus ride. The timing was impossible; the next bus left at 11:00. He called a taxi and, I think, took it all the way to the airport. It cost 1,000 SEK, which is quite a bit of money: our round-trip bus tickets to the same airport were 199 SEK, and seven SEK was about one dollar. So, that was the story. Other than that, we wandered around for most of the afternoon. Well, The Simpsons is playing, so I’m going to have some water and eat some peanuts. Wish us luck tomorrow on our mission to Milan! Casey and I both overshot our budgets here in Sweden, but not having to pay for hostels helped a little. Cheers to the entire group we went out with last night: Asa, Sara, Josephine, Anna K, Ilian, and Billi. You gave us an excellent impression of your city!