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After a long weekend of partying it was time to take it easy. On Tuesday we went to McDonalds and final got our daime McFlurrys, well worth the wait, and then we visited Maria in Mantorp. She has a very beautiful house and an amazing bedroom. As we came in you could hear this strange pattering sound getting louder and louder and before you knew it a black sausage dog came bursting forth from around the corner. I don't know if I've ever ...

... He flew a Saab fighter jet and was an air traffic controller. He conducted dangerous missions by flying close to Soviet air space and measuring air quality reading when the Soviet's were testing atomic and hydrogen bombs. We had our FIKA with Marianne's home made cookies and another either cloudberry or lingonberry pie. We spoke about Scandinavian baking and reminisced ...

... Then we all had Chinese. The day concluded with a game of Yahtzee. The Swedes take on a different nature at the mention of Yahtzee as I find it's a popular family game. All the scoring sheets are in Swedish. The game continued until midnight at which time Bev and I went to bed. The others continued talking until 1:00 am. It was a wonderful of becoming better friends and helped unify us in the faith.

Day 3 was our last day and we had to get up really early for a bus at around 5 in the morning. We then had hours to kill before our flight home. On the flight we were just leaving when someone was taking ill so we had to go back and unload them, they were taken off in an ambulance.<br><br>

We spent the second day just chilling out and looking around the town (not much to see in winter) before heading to a sports bar for dinner and then to the concert.<br><br>The concert was amazing and afterwards we went to the stage door. After waiting ages we were told that Kerry and Mazz had gone out the front door so we ran round the front, highly embarassing as it was a glass building so Mazz saw us run round.

... so finally we were off to the venue.<br><br>Stage Door<br><br>The venue, the Louis de Geer, was only about a 10 minute walk away so we headed to the stage door to meet Laura's friends. We saw Kerry Ellis briefly but Mazz was on the phone. Laura's friends invited us out but because of strict drinking laws we couldn't go. So back to the hostel it was to battle with the shower that had no door or no light!

... om Thailand. Vi ska ju till Koh Chang, där var vi inte förra gången. Ska faktiskt stanna där i två veckor, dock inte på samma ställe hela tiden, utan vi byter efter ungefär en vecka. Sista tre dagarna tillbringar vi i Bangkok. Där blir det shopping, shopping och shopping. Underbart!

... to prepare myself properly, or as well as I can without knowing exactly what to expect. I have decided to keep this travelogue, where I plan to post photos and news of what I am doing. This will mean that I can keep everyone up to date, and may also prevent me from telling the same story to the same person over and over again (something I often do in the pub :))

... March arrived and Tommy returned to Sweden, and I returned to D.C. with the honest intention of going back to work and ceasing the traveling. -Two weeks later I jumped on a plane to Sweden :) So that's how I ended up in Sweden, really still traveling from my world trip that was supposed to end four months ago. I've put off writing 'the final log' because I didn't want the travels to end. I planned to ...