Wandering around

One of the cool things about where I work is that they are pretty social and always have fun things planned, and so I was excited to hear that they were planning on going "vandering" (aka-hiking) a few Saturdays ago. I was game, so Blake and I met them at the train station early Saturday morning. We took the pendaltåg (sort of like a train) to some stop south of Stockholm, then hopped on a bus for about an hour. We thought we were pretty far away from the city, but later realized that we werent that far from our old apartment. It was a little gloomy and cold outside (November in Sweden... go figure), but not too bad once you started moving.



I didnt know what to expect, but they said they were going to walk about 15 kilometers (9 miles), and to bring lunch and fika. Well, we blew right through fika, but when they stopped for lunch, they really stopped for lunch. We had brought a sandwhich, some coffee, and some pringles, while everyone else had full spreads of salads, they started a fire, cooked hot dogs and sausages.. they werent messing around:





They had brought "hot dogs" for everyone, so we tried one, but it tasted all weird and livery. Gross. It even had Dennis the Menice on the package! What lies!



The one really funny thing is that this girl in my office, Klara, and I had matching green rain jackets. Everyone thought this was really funny, considering we bought them on different continents and all...



I found out that Blake easily blends in with his environment:



It wasnt very hilly, but we were pretty tired by the end of it. At the end of the trip when we were waiting for the pendaltåg back home, I finally saw a little bit of wildlife- a woodpeckar. (Although it was 3 pm and naturally almost dark, so it is hard to tell in the picture)