Bicycles

Today was the first time I have actually used a bicycle as a method of transportation. I mean, I've walked to a store and driven even rode a bike for exercise, but I've never actually ridden a bike to get around. Well today, I did. We rode about 5.5km outside Uppsala to Old Uppsala to visit Viking graves. It was really cool. What the vikings would do when their leader died is, they would burn his body and bury him with his boat and teasures. There were HUGE hills and underneath them were viking ships and viking treasures. I found that to be very interesting. Then we rode back into Uppsala and we once again fika with some of Filippa's friends. I've really enjoyed meeting all these new people, it's really great to meet people who are from the area. It's really wierd too because, I mean, I expected everyone to be speaking Swedish and whatnot, but I don't understand ANY Swedish. For example, in Alabama there's a lot of hispanic people and they all speak Spanish, I understand some Spanish so I was kind of not expecting it to be that bad. But I have no idea what they're saying. It really blows me away sometimes, I feel noneducated because I can only communicate with one language, and they all know 2 if not 3 or 4 other lanuages.

But anyways, earlier this evening Filippa's grandmother came over for dinner. We had moose. I thought this was awesome, moose. I've had deer before, but moose. It's so much bigger than a deer. It tasted delicious.