Saturday, May 2, 2009

Road Trip to Sweden

We took advantage of Norway's Labour Day holiday to visit our neighbors to the east in Göteborg, Sweden.

Since we do not often get the chance to ride around in our own car, we enjoyed every minute of our 3-hour ride along the coast, blasting the radio on whatever station we could find playing a song in English. Too bad we couldn't roll the windows down though because our "antique" car's driver-side electric window is non-functional now---Kelly had to open the door any time we got to a toll booth!

We headed straight to Liseberg, the biggest tivoli in Scandinavia and found lots of fun rides for Zach in the kiddie section. Adults weren't allowed on one he had eyed for a while---the airplanes. He was relucant at first, but after watching a few rounds, he mustered up the courage to ride all by himself. He was so proud of himself (as were we) and had an awesome time!

After a full day of fun riding rides and seeing all of the beautiful gardens there, we headed back to the hotel for a splash in the pool and then a good night's rest.

We explored more of the city today. Our favorite thing was a boat tour that took us through some of Göteborg's canal system. One bridge we passed under, nicknamed the "cheese-grater," was so low that we had to get out of our seats and sit on the floor of the boat ducking! The city is really beautiful and the ride was lots of fun.

After a delicious late lunch of way too much Indian food, we packed back up in the car to enjoy the ride back.









1 comment:

Lacey said...

Looks awesome. I can't wait to come visit.