We wanted to take the 7:10am shuttle to the airport to give us enough time to check in for our flight at 8:30am to Kalmar. Kalmar is in the southern part of Sweden and is home to the glassworks area which mom and I really wanted to sea. It also has great beaches and so we had convinced the boys that this would be fun.
We landed early and picked up our rental cars. Mom and I went to get some information on where to go in town and where to find a hotel as we had not pre-booked anything in for this night. As the bags were loaded into the car it was relized that mom's suitcase has been left at the Stockholm airport. Soooo...we had to track that down before we could get going. The police had seized it of course, but they had it...so off we went.
We tried to follow each other into the centrum, but the Fougner car followed a similar vehicle to a supermarket so we ended up getting seperating...not a good start to this day!
Dave and I decided to go to the centrum and find them there, it didn't seem like that big of a city...then if we needed to we could find wi-fi and facebook them or something.
Luckily as we had pulled over to check out a hotel, I saw them drive by and starting honking...reunited hooray!
Kalmar is a lovely city, we had a nice time walking around, we stopped at a nice place for coffees and danishes and wi-fi. We found another hotel and so the Fougner car went off to check it out. Dave and I and the girls strolled around some more and checked out some stores.
It was a big old hotel and it was nice to be in the centre of things. With the hotel sorted out we strolled through town a little. We went to the old town to check out the castle and then walked over the the gardens that was listed in the book. Everything was really beautiful.
We then headed to the Island of Oland which is east of Kalmar. Its a quick drive over a very long bridge. We found a nice place to have lunch and Dave ordered this neat dish that was surprisingly good...it was a Pyppa Salad with hashbrowns and ham and egg and beets....really yum.
After lunch we headed to the beach. Today was a rare sunny day and so a good opportunity to dig out our bathings suits and sunscreen. Mom and Bruce napped while the rest of us went for a swim and sat in the sand. The boys actually found this crazy trampoline thing and had wars on it while Avery enjoyed the freedom from her diaper by first peeing on the grass and then a very short while after on the sand. Fantastic!
Cadence was very brave and waded right out into the water with her dad and uncles. Her start at the beach hadn't been great as she had walked through stinging nettle somewhere on the way to the sand...but after getting that cleaned and ointment put on, she was happy to play in the water with the little fish.
After the beach it was back to the hotel to have a quick nap before getting cleaned up and ready for dinner. We headed to the central square and found a great spot outside to eat. Dinner was great and mom and Bruce very generously took the girls back to bed for us so that we could stay out with Robert and Brian for a drink.
The main square was really hopping, we couldn't believe all the people out. We didn't stay out too late but enjoyed a couple good beers before heading back to our hotel.
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