Super weekend!

So, this weekend was fantastic!
Friday night Cailan and I went out with her friend Andreas to take tourist photos. Instead we just drank a lot and took amusing photos with things around town. After we abused all the statues we could find around the Castle we went to a pub where I ordered my first drink in Swedish, and the lady understood me! Kan jag fä en öl? Aw yeah. After that I just ordered people's beers or red wines so I could practice. Once we got bored of the pub, we proceeded to go to this cool dance bar where we got swag when we collected our coats from the coat check - makeup, shopping bag, tshirt, bracelet, gum and a magazine. Definitely worth more than the cover we paid, I felt privileged.
Saturday night we went to a Portuguese wine tasting party with some Swedes who are planning to go to Portugal  for the wine in the summer. We all had three glasses of white, red and dessert wines. We had to describe them and guess which kinds they were - since Cailan and I were the only two who didnt speak Swedish, and are obviously not wine connoisseurs, we just drank them back. It was good at first, super good desserts, but after 10 glasses of wine they stopped translating their conversations for us, and were speaking too fast for us to guess what they were on about. We left to rest up for our big day today!

Today... today was probably the most fun I've had being here. We drove out into the country with two of Cailan's friends - Sophie and Peter - they drive the same Volvo we had as kids, in red! Anyways, they took us out to this hill - Öry Kulle - where snakes come out of hibernation and get all intertwined and start mating in giant balls. We saw two different kinds: adders and grass snakes. Super cool. They were just every where! Peter said on really hot days there are up to thousands. We definitely didn't see that many, but it was still super fun hunting for them and hoping you didnt step on any! Eep!

After that we drove around the country side south of Örebro and stopped at the summer town of Askersund for fika. Fika is kinda like the Newfoundland/British tea. You stop and have a coffee and a dessert or sandwich and as far as I can tell it is essential to Swedes. Everyone takes fika and can have it anywhere - at home, at work, in a cafe. When it's at work though  it's not like a coffee break. Hard to explain, but the best I can compare it to is "tea".

All in all, today was a super day, and it just added to an even better weekend.
Tomorrow morning I'm heading off to Oslo... the most expensive place in the world!