Finland, Gamla Uppsala and starting to pack again

         As the past couple of days have not been as eventful as the past couple of weeks they have been fun of some gorgeous sites and great memories.

     Late last week Stina took her driving theory test for her driving license and passed! Congrats. While she was taking the exam I got one of my first chances  to wonder the city alone. This turned out to be much more of a task then I anticipated. Turns out that the place I chose to order food no one spoke any English at all. This is a problem because I have been working on my Swedish but its definitely not anywhere close to full sentences yet. So I eventually got what I wanted after quite a bit of pointing and hand gestures. I made my way down to the river and ate lunch on a park bench. Not exactly the cleanest river in the world but it was a nice spot. Once I finished lunch it was time to get lost in town for a couple of hours and see some interesting sites.

        When I arrived home I got the chance to take a little drive with Stina's father to the Old Uppsala. This was the location that the vikings had originally settled back in the 1st century. They moved Uppsala when Christianity took over in about 1500. It was amazing to walk through the small abandoned village. It was a great evening that gave me a ton of history of the area and an idea of actually how old this area really is. Also the viking burial grounds all over were an overwhelming site to see. The viking kings are buried under huge mounds of dirt when they die and the bigger the mound the more important the king.

          On Saturday our adventure began to a new country. To Finland we started but like always with a couple of set backs. We made our reservations incorrectly for the ferry that almost had us left in Uppsala and even worse then that I completely forgot my passport. This kinda put a damper on the trip because we were not going to temp me going on the island because i may not be able to reboard the boat. It was still a really fun trip and had some amazing sites of the archipelago. Its a beautiful trip and a must see if you come to Sweden.



       The last couple of days have been sent purchasing our train tickets to Germany, packing up to move again, and organizing where we are going to stay for out first week in Stuttgart. It has been a bit stressful but now that the tickets have been bought and sunday night we ate at an amazing Thai food place the stress is much reduced and we are now just relaxing as the move south comes closer. We will be leaving to the south of Sweden on monday the 12th and then we will be heading over the canal to Copenhagen, Denmark on the 19th to head down to Stuttgart. We are leaving to Germany a bit later then we wanted to but it saved us a ton of money just to wait a couple more days.

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