Thursday, August 4, 2011

taking a train across Europe

Woo Hoo!!!

We finally have made the decision how to get to Sweden, We booked our train tickets this morning!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a proof how high our tensions are, I woke up at 3am from Dale's voice down in the living room making hotel reservations in Germany!! I got up too, drank a cup of coffee and called Jens!
Jens was a very,very nice and pretty clearly speaking Danish guy working for the German Bahn (railroad). Feeling proud that we could communicate me in Swedish and him in Danish without even having to ask to repeat more than maybe once or twice!!!!

We'll have to switch trains 3 times but we're getting to sleep together in a small cabin on the 11.5 hour night train between Koln and Kopenhagen and the total trip is just short of 24 hours. Breakfast is included!!

So with a sigh of relief that hurdle is now passed!!!

Now all our 8 bags weighing 40 lb a piece need to get loaded on the truck and taken down to base this morning, so by tomorrow morning when we get on board all we have to worry about are our carry on backpacks!!!

Both Erik and Syssa came down with some kind of stomach bug yesterday so they've been throwing up... yuck!! Hopefully they will feel much better tomorrow morning!

Dale's nephew Justin came in to town from OK yesterday, he's going to be in a bike race this weekend and came to stay with us for a few days!! Very nice to see him, it has been more than a year since last time! Good Luck in the Race Justin!!!

My last day and last night in this house... mixed feelings!

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