The Trip

Craig and I had the opportunity to go to Sweden with my parents the first week of June. This was really exciting for us because we had never been outside the country before. I first stop was New York. We flew in late Monday night and our plane for Sweden didn't leave till the next afternoon. So we saw as much of New York as we could in 4 hours. This picture is Craig in Time Square.

We decided that we wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and Ground Zero. This picture is mom, dad and Craig down in the subway trying to figure out where we are going. The subway in New York is a very interesting place. When we were on the train this guy who was having a very heated conversation with himself sat next to mom. It was funny just watching mom. The guy was very upset and kept swearing at himself or who ever he thought he was talking to. Mom was very relieved when he got off.


This was as close as we were able to get to the Statue of Liberty because of time.
Thanks to Dad's frequent flier miles we were able to fly business class from New York to Amsterdam. I must say this has pretty much ruined flying in coach for me!!!
This is Goteborg Sweden. I of course have many pictures but I will just included a few to kind of show what it looks like. This is the canal that goes through the city and ends in the harbor. Goteborg is the biggest habor in Scandinavia.

This is one of the fortress that they used to watch the harbor for enemies.

This was one of the more interesting traditions. There were many of these truck full of kids driving around the city. Evidently we were there during the University Graduation week. This is like one week of parties. Every afternoon these trucks would hit the streets. The would have music blasting and they would honk the horns with the kids in the back would be drinking... some just with wine glasses but most with the whole bottle. It was kind of funny to watch. I kept thinking that one of the kids would fall out of the truck. As the trucks would drive past the kids parents would be on the side of the street holding sign with picture of the child when they were little. And taking picture of their kids as they drove by on the trucks.

Anyway that is a quick update of our trip. It was really fun to see somewhere new....but is also great when you land back in the USA.