When I started this blog it was full of lies. Now, however, it is full of half-truths. I am STILL not a wife, but I am kind of Swedish. Well, living in Sweden at least. I guess I can say that even though it has been about 24 hours since our arrival. I am hoping to make the wife part true sooner rather than later.
Our trip here was very exhausting.
We arrived at the airport in St. Louis at 11:30 and arrived in Gothenburg at 10:00 the next day. We had just about 24 hours of traveling and airports and airplanes and turbulence, oh the turbulence! Our first flight in to Denver was very rocky and I was definitely not feeling well at all. Luckily, we got to rest for a little over an hour before getting on our next flight to Reykjavik. I did learn one thing...I will NEVER fly Icelandair again! We had 10 hours of flying with them, one 7 hour flight from Denver to Reykjavik and then a 3 hour flight from Reykjavik to Stockholm and they gave us NO food, ZERO! Not a bag of pretzels or peanuts or almonds or snack mix or anything. We did get ONE drink and it took nearly 3 hours to get that. Since our connecting flight in Reykjavik was tight we did not even have time to get food at the airport. Needless to say that by the time we landed in Gothenburg, having been traveling for nearly 12 hours since our last meal, we were starving! We did get a little lucky during our trip though. We only had to pay $75 to get all of our bags from St. Louis to Gothenburg. We somehow had Classic tickets with Frontier Airlines so all of our bags were free, except the one that weighed 86 pounds, that one we had to pay a $75 overweight fee. Frontier Airlines does not have a ticketing agreement with SAS so we had to collect all of our bags and recheck them in in Stockholm. We got lucky again because the guy working at the counter gave us all of our bags free because we were moving to Sweden! We were expecting to pay almost $400 to check our bags, but now we have $325 more dollars to buy everything! I do not think it is going to be much fun starting all over. You forget about all of the little things you have to buy...silverware, pot holders, windex, dish soap, spices, toilet paper...it all adds up! Thankfully, we have one less thing we have to buy...a gorgeous LeCrueset enameled cast iron dutch oven! Hannes' parents got us one as a moving gift/graduation present/birthday present. It is everything I ever wanted! It was definitely a nice gesture and I will definitely be using it often...now I just have to find a way to ship a 10 pound dutch oven when we move back, but I guess I have a few years to figure it out.
