Sweden Hotel Teaterparken Växjö

The time came for the highlight of our busy day, the Hyttsill Dinner at Kosta Glassworks! The Hyttsill celebrates a traditional Swedish dinner that the locals used to prepare in the same glass blowing ovens that were used to make crystal pieces earlier in the day. Because the ovens kept the place very warm, the vagabonds would come in to share in the dinner, tell stories of the road, and play traditional Swedish ...

Today is one of the busier days on our schedule, with a number of fun activities planned. What's more fun than glass shopping? We took the opportunity here in Kosta at their outlets and glass shops to pick up a number of things for ourselves, as well as some gifts for family events. Most of it is getting shipped back to the states UPS, which will take about 6 weeks. A ...

... for the evening. I took the opportunity to go for a quick run while the kids chilled out to some work in their journals. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day, with some glass shopping, a visit to Kalmar Castle, and the Hytsill dinner at Kosta glassworks in the evening.

Boy, I hope I can adjust to the time change soon. I'm still wide awake half the night.

Just wanted to send off an update. I am in a town called Karlskrona, just arrived about 6 hours ago from Tingsryd. But please allow me to back up and tell you a bit about Tingsryd, located in the South Eastern region of Sweden. This small town is made up a picturesque lakes, tall birch pine and oak trees, as well as a powerful Rotary group, 30 members strong. Upon ...

We arrived Sunday evening close to 8:00pm Swedish time at the Halmstad airport after spending 23.5hours traveling.  (San Francisco, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Halmstad)  The District Govenor of district 2400, Per Wiström, met us as well as Jöran and other GSE coordinators.  They had a big Swedish and Rotary flag on the wall of the airport as well as lots of hugs.  Our flights went ...

So I really am not the best blogger but I would like to get better with this. I have lived in Sweden for 6 months already and every day has been a beautiful and great time. I have a lot of catching up to do with my traveling blogging so bare with me :P

... entertainment. At the end of the night people from each country could get up on stage and perform something to represent their country. Us Americans were pretty lame and we sang the theme songs to the shows Spongebob Squarepants and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I don't know the words to these songs so I just hung in the back and danced a little. There are about 25-30 ...

... direction for a long time and weren't quite sure when we were supposed to get off once we got on the right bus. We eventually made it there and it was a fun evening. The cheapest bar in town... 20 kronas for a beer which is about $2.50. The next two days we had orientation all day and learned a lot of helpful information. The typical orientation: boring but neccessary information. On the second day we had a ...

... the best place to take a baby but we felt Wroclaw owed us. After a great 3 course meal we started warming up to Wroclaw. The next day our bus to Prague left more than an hour after it was suppose to - we hated Wroclaw again. Prague rocked. Museums, castles, good, cheap beer and beautiful women. You are all getting 'I love Czech women' t-shirts' (ha ha). Tim fulfilled a dream of taking in a European hockey game though I'm not sure in his dream his wife and baby made ...

... bacon), potatoes, and cheesecake for dessert. They told us that the food was prepared in the same 500 degrees C oven that earlier in the day was used to cool the glass pieces they were working on. After dinner, they gave us a glass blowing demonstration and we each got to try our hand at glass blowing. Todd's turned out better than Binnie's (beginner's luck). Tomorrow, we head down to Copenhagen to see our friends Alan and Sophia Guthrie and do some sight seeing. Should be fun!