Day 2

After a restless night because we had no leg room and it was freezing cold, we arived in Östersund around 6:30 am on Saturday and met our final 2 travel companions, Daniel and Nina ,who were coming from the north. Someone in the group had arranged for a taxi to take us to our cabin, which was a 2 hour drive from there. We knew there wasnt going to be a grocery store near our cabin (since it is in the middle of the mountains!) and so the taxi driver arranged for a grocery store to be open for the 12 of us to go shopping for the week. It was chaos shopping with 12 people, but awesome that they opened for us. After we finally got there, I think we had some food and then half of us crashed (well I know I did, I wasnt really concerned at that point what the others did). Since there were so many of us, we had to split into 2 cabins, and lets just say there was an ambitious cabin, and then there was my cabin. My cabin was me, Blake, Björn, Ulrika, and one of Björn's oldest friends, Daniel and his girlfriend, Nina. While we napped during half the day, the other cabin went hiking. When we woke up, we went on what we thought was a short hike, but got confused by the directions and walked about 8 miles, which was much longer than the 2 km that the other cabin walked.

That night, most the other cabin was in bed by 8, but since we slept all day, we played a stupid swedish card game, where the point was to be able to guess how well you were going to do. If you did better than expected, you lost, which I thought was stupid, and pointed out that only in socialist socieity would you be expected to only do so much, and that you should be rewarded for doing better than expected, and that in a nutshell, America rules. I think this made some of them mad, but it was a stupid game and someone had to tell them.