Malmo, Sweden... (Tuesday) 5-10-11

A day in our life: A complete journal entry with pictures :)

Last night we stayed in Helsinger, Denmark. This morning we got up relatively early (for us anyway).

We ate breakfast from the buffet at Hotel Sleep2Night, where we stayed last night.

The breakfast buffet did not live up to Caleb's standards, he thought it was totally pitiful. It definitely wasn't an American continental breakfast.

Afterwards we went to see a very old church and cathedral. Took a bunch of pictures. Caleb said that it was built 1200 AD.

Then we went to Hillerod and saw the Frederiksborg Castle. We didn't go in very far, mainly just took pictures outside.

We drove back to Copenhagen and tried to find the mermaid so we could find a WWII museum that a couple on the cruise told us about. While looking for it we came across a old Anglican church. It was very elaborate and gaudy, and in a gothic way, beautiful.

Found the museum and there ended up not being any admission fee. That was cool because we worried about not having time to really go thru it, and if we had to pay, not being able to get our money's worth.

We had arranged to meet Dimitri and Liliya at 5pm in Sweden.

But first, Caleb want to go back to Hotel Denmark, the first Denmark hotel that we stayed at and see if they could store our luggage for us because we are going to bring Dimitri and them and all their luggage to the airport from Sweden and worried that we wouldn't be able to fit it all. We had a hard time getting there because of the road construction. It took a very long tie getting there. We finally got there just to have them us that they couldn't store it because we weren't guests there. (We probably should've figured that one out.)

 After that we just decided to head over. The hotel stop made us run late already and we still had to get across the bridge and figure out where their hotel was.
First we went under water...

Then waaay up over so boats could get under...

We got into Sweden with no problem, just a $60 toll. We found the city, no problem there.

However, we had a bit of a hard time finding the hotel.

There are not near as many people in Sweden that speak English, like in Denmark. We couldn't find anywhere that had free wifi.

Finally, Caleb found someone, who knew someone, that had a general idea of where it might be. Very helpful. But we started heading that way and eventually got us there.

We parked about 4 blocks away and walked in because the people that Caleb talked to weren't sure if we gonna be able to park near it.

We got there and found that they were still out. We were glad because we hoped that they hadn't been sitting there waiting for us to get there. They got there about 15-20 minutes after we did. Their Swedish friends left shortly after. We decided that we would eat dinner there in the room. They told us about this cool building that Caleb wanted to see, so we went and saw it while Dimitri went and got food from the grocery store.

We got back and they went to the sauna there at the hotel while Caleb did some laundry and I did stuff online.

Then I cooked us dinner and we ate before they got back (they asked us to).

After they got back, we ate and visited while Liliya worked on packing.

Before we knew it, it was late. Earlier Caleb had reserved a room for us in Sweden. But it was a bed and breakfast. We realized that we probably should've checked in earlier.

We decided to go and try to find it anyway. It was suppossed to be about 20 minutes south of where our friends were staying. Ummm...not the case. About 40 minutes later, we were in the middle of nowhere

in the middle of the night.

We ended up finding a bed and breakfast, but we still don't know if it was the right one because Caleb rang the bell but, understandably, no one came.

We decided that we would get more sleep if we just went back to Malmo and parked and slept, since we had to get up in two hours to go anyway.