Day 11

It's supposed to be bedtime, but we were all hungry and it's light outside so we went on a food hunt.  Dad and Holly wanted pizza, but go figure, everything was closed...  Except McDonald's.  It's not so easy to order here.  They don't have the full menu posted.  Instead they have the giant flat screens with select menu items posted.  They have slightly different names too.  Yesterday we had Daim McFlurries (which means Heath Bar).  Today we wanted the two cheeseburger meal, but that doesn't exist, so we settled for the QP Cheeseburger and the Fiesta Burger (quarter pounder with cheese and a Mr Tasty).  They cost 42 each.

We've learned that 25% sales tax sucks.  We've also learned that they often leave the denomination off the total when speaking.  When they DO say the denomination it's either Crowns, Pounds, or Dollars but they're always refering to the Swedish currency of Kronor...  The exchange rate is 7.4 SEK per 1 USD, so we paid over $5 per sandwich.  ouch.

I posted a few more pictures on Day 5 if you want to go back and look.

Brian - Mom would love if you would call Grandma Schmidt sometime and let her know how things are going here and that we won our first game.  Comment back if you can do that.

Happy Anniversary to Mom and Dad!!!  We went on the hunt for seafood tonight, but settled for some pasta scampi and baked char at a non-seafood place.  You live, you learn... but it was just nice to go out and celebrate 41 years!  And they still hold hands. =)