Sweden: Gothenburg Day 2

 I awoke early, before anyone else, and I finally decided to get up. As a result, the girls and I were ready to go shortly after breakfast, while the boys still needed extra time. We took advantage of this time to head out early for some extra photos. It paid off as we managed to get a photo with all of us (girls), taken by a kind passerby. 

After this photo, we walked down to the opera house, which was under construction and therefore underwhelming as a photo op. We did, however, enjoy the boats docked in the harbor and used those a our backdrop instead.

Then we walked down to the Maritime museum. This was a huge regret for me since I realized the day before that it was closed during the week in May. It would have been a fun exhibition to explore, with a German U-boat and a destroyer as part of the ships one could tour. 

The boys caught up with us shortly after that, and we planned out a walking path to hit some photo-worthy sites on the way to a park. It was more than three miles, but the promise of a park kept Joy walking in spite of it all. 

Meanwhile, I managed to get some fun photos along the way. What a good sport Timothy was to just amble through the streets for my sake.

Once we arrived at the park, Joy was in heaven, but the other kids found fun in it all as well. 

Once we left the park, we headed towards the hotel via some gardens which held an additional playground and an ice cream stand. 

After finishing our ice cream, we headed back to the hotel for some down time before dinner. All of the girls fell asleep, and I had to wake them to go to dinner. 

At the end of the day, I was pretty tired, but it was a great day of just exploring Gothenburg in a new way. 

Sweden: Gothenburg Day 1

 Today we explored a little bit of Gothenburg as we also adjusted to the time change. I was so thankful for a room at the airport hotel when we arrived, but in the morning, I was anxious to get going. We were all up early, and we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast before picking up our rental car. Then we drove to our hotel in Gothenburg and dropped off our bags before walking to Universeum, a children’s museum near the local amusement park. I was honestly underwhelmed by the museum, but some of the younger kids really enjoyed it, and it kept everyone busy and awake. Their exhibits included an Amazonian rainforest, a human body exhibit, a space exhibit, and a math exhibit. Joy certainly got a kick out of it all, as she ran around, exploring everything. 

After we left the museum, we headed back to the hotel to check in. Of course, we stopped for our first mjukglass of the trip while walking back. 

After checking in, we relaxed until dinner, when we walked to a restaurant that promised plankstek, a meal many of us had waited years to eat again. Unfortunately, the potatoes contained some sort of nut ingredient, and K and AJ had to choose a different menu item. 

After dinner, we walked back to our hotel to get ready for an early bedtime. It had been a long day, and everyone was exhausted from jet lag and all the walking.