After waking up in the middle of the night and trying to get back to sleep we awoke to a bit of rain outside. We’re told it rains here quit a bit during this part of the season.

The jet lag was still hitting us a bit, but it is getting better. In another day or two we should be all done with that.

We are located just 1 block away from Ullevi stadium. It’s the biggest stadium in Scandinavia and holds about 43,000 seated people. For us it means a good parking spot underneath.

I walked Rhonda to the car this morning and parking at the Ullevi stadium seems to be a fairly good spot at about $20 for a full day. Hopefully we can keep the cost down. Maybe we’ll find a better spot around here as we explore the area in the upcoming week.

The apartment and the internet connection that came with it are excellent. It will allow me to work from here without any problem. Here are a couple of pictures of how it looks.

Chad

It has now been exactly 24 hours since we took off from Greensboro for Gothenburg.

Chad and I both are very tired, and I think we will end our day soon since we have only had about 2-3 hours of sleep, but I wanted to post a short description of how our day went.

When we arrived in Gothenburg, Magnus (my team leader) picked us up at the airport. He cracked jokes about how much luggage we had…he said we could easily stay a full year with the amount of luggage we had.  We are located on the 3rd floor of an older apartment building. We piled up all of our luggage on top of each other in the tiniest elevator you have ever seen. The elevator was about 3 feet by 3 feet square.

After saying goodbye to Magnus, we headed off to the grocery store to stock up on some food. We spent about 2 hours shopping because we couldn’t find simple things like salt and cinnamon.

Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, that we are driving a Volvo C30. It is brand spanken new. I love it. We will have to take a picture soon so you can check it out.

After we returned from the stressing trip from the grocery store, we tried to find a parking space for the car.  Let me tell you, it’s like living in NYC, there are no parking spaces available. I had to call my team lead again (Magnus) and ask for help. He told me to try an underground parking lot not too far away. Anyway, that worked out great after asking for some help from a pedestrian to help us understand how to read and work the parking fee machine.

Once back at home, we got everything unpacked, which took about 2 hours as well. The apartment is going to be very nice. It’s a big one bedroom and it even has a dish washer in the kitchen!

That’s it for tonight; we are going to now get some rest!

Rhonda

We spent almost all of Sunday packing, weighing, and checking our luggage. We are taking our jumping equipment so we ended up with 6 big bags along with 2 carry-ons each. We have a ton of luggage.

At the Greensboro airport, we are delayed at least 2 hours before leaving. The United Airlines are waiting for a flight attendant so they can fly to GSO.