Gothenburg by day...

The Hubby and I are on a high speed train to Gothenburg.  If I had a smart phone I could have twittered you about it - or posted pictures straight into my Facebook account.  Instead I am being made fun of by the conductor on the train for having the oldest phone ever!!!  They have a great service here in Sweden where you can get the ticket codes SMS:ed to your cell phone and don't need a ticket.  Of course I used this service, but the conductor said with that old phone I can't even read the codes!

Then she said - and I quote - "Not even the 85 year old ladies that travel by train have such an old phone..."  Hahaha - I was asking her to convince my husband that I need a smart phone, but unfortunately I think that Danny takes pride in the fact that we don't conform to the masses (!!!)

With all that cleared out of the way we are now enjoying a beautiful, scenic ride down to Stockholm and then across the country to Gothenburg where we will pick up our car that we shipped here from the States.  We have about a 9 hour train ride there and about an 11 hour drive back up to our city.  We are hoping to be able to visit the 3 offices needed to retrieve the car before they close today, so we can start our trip back as soon as possible.  Gothenburg is a beautiful city and I would love to visit more when we have more time, but for now we're keeping our fingers crossed that it will only be a day trip...  The plan was to sleep on the train, but since we don't have a car we decided to walk to the train station at 5 am this morning.  With the brisk walk and cool air I am now fully awake...  Here are a couple of pictures from our morning walk in to the city of Östersund.

Have a beautiful day!