I'm certain the answer to the title should be easy: Everyone who lives and is currently visiting in the country. Since I checked out of Hotel Ideon G?steri at around 9:30 am, I needed to find a new place to stay in Lund before my train ride to Stockholm tomorrow morning (7:30 local). Luckily, the host at the hotel allowed me to stash my bag while I went sightseeing, but at $190 a night, they had better damn well be accommodating. I was pretty sure I was going to stop at the youth hostel in order to try to do some cost minimizing, however, I couldn't check in until 5 pm which is a long time to be sight seeing in a town that's outside temperature is in the mid 40's. However the sun was out in the morning and I took a lot of photos of various buildings around the university. I really like the buildings in Lund more than I did in Malm?. Maybe it is also that Lund is much more of a college town and perhaps more laid back.

What was worrisome at first was my ticket to Stockholm. The manned ticket counter evidently is closed on Saturday, and when I was trying to use the automatic ticket machine, it requires a pin number for a credit card. Not so lucky for me, I don't have pin numbers on my credit cards (or I never set them to my knowledge), and so I had to rely on my debit card as the machine does not accept cash. I opted out of the internet access since it was another 100 SEK and am trying to maintain my budget.

One of the key stops for me so far on this trip was a visit to the Skissernas Museum (Museum of Sketch Art) which showcases a lot of preliminary sketches and models of artwork. Some of it was pretty amazing, though the museum does not allow any photography. Unfortunately, I think all of the walking during my trip has re-aggravated my old knee injury, so my right knee is really starting to lock up on me.

After my knee started killing me, I thought I would try to get into the youth hostel early. So I spent a half hour walking back feeling pretty blue (and probably looking blue as well) to Hotel Ideon and grabbed my duffel bag. At this point, I knew I needed to take a bus, otherwise I would probably be very sore for a while. While I couldn't get in the room, the host let me stay in the dining car, which while not warm was nice and quiet and got some reading done.

One of the highlights though was grocery shopping. I decided that I wanted to bring some food along with me on my trip to Stockholm, just in case as well as have some Pepsi (I haven't found Mountain Dew yet in Sweden). However for dinner I picked up some rye bread along with some jelly and r?kt skinka (smoked ham). To drink I tried a flavor of Fanta that I couldn't get in Arizona, Exotic Thrill, which I think is supposed to be like watermelon, and finished off with some Yoplait yogurt. Adding in some band-aids for my blisters and some apples for the road, I was very happy with my grocery shopping experience. One thing that amazed me was the pace of the grocery shoppers. I always thought Europeans complained about the American pace of life being so fast, but the Swedes are downright crazy when it comes to Power-grocery-shopping. I was "ahemmed" often for being in the way while perusing the Swedish foodstuffs.

Well that gets you guys up to date as of right now. Considering it is 11 AM in Tucson, you will have some good afternoon reading. I will add the pictures of my bedroom tomorrow when I get into Stockholm. Have a good Friday.

-Trevor

P.S. If anyone got any great Black Friday sales let me know.