May 12th, 2011

Tove & Henning with funny Swedish rolling basket

Our foil BBQ cover to protect the food from the rain

Tove, Harald, & Henning

Me, Harald, Martin (Harald's friend from High School) & Henning

Arvid had to go to school early so we left around 10am. We continued on our road trip to Lund where we would meet Harald's sister, Tove. I was a little intimidated by her just because I am intimidated by any girl siblings, especially if they are older. I realized I was very silly for doing that because she is very sweet. We met her, put our stuff in her room and left to go to the store and The System Bolaget (the liquor store, that has a monopoly on alcohol sales so this is the only store you can get alcohol above 3.5%). It was fun because they have beer from all over the world. You can buy one or many, they sell all the beer individually. Instead of having to buy a 6, 18, 24, or 30 rack of one type of beer, you can buy one from Sweden, one from Germany, etc. The System also sells wine and hard alcohol and box wine can be nice, not just cheap like in the states. We went to another grocery store and got food to BBQ. I made avocado burgers for the Swedes, it was a big hit. Our BBQ got interrupted by rain but it didn't stop us. There was a guy that joined us who actually grew up in Bozeman, small world. We had a few beers and then all four of us cuddled up in Tove's dorm room (tight squeeze!) and went to bed.