Adventures of The Richardson's in Sweden!: Missionary Week 53

Missionary Week 53 - September 16, 2019 – September 22, 2019

Hello Everyone! This week we have moved into some colder days! I believe our Summer is over! The leaves are changing colors and we are gearing up for some more cooler days & nights.

Leaves changing some change to
yellow this one turns red

Monday – This morning the outside temperature was 10*C which is about 50*F. We both wore sweatshirts today. When we got to the train station, we were going to have to wait 2 minutes for the next train …. two minutes came and went, and an announcement finally came over the speakers…That our train was delayed due to a passenger who got sick. Surprisingly, the first announcement was in Swedish, but we were so happy they also spoke in English! So, we waited a little while longer, and still made it to work by 7 am. I feel bad for the sick passenger – there is nowhere to run on a moving train.

Our day went really fast and tonight we headed for groceries. We went home and put away the groceries and then took the car over to the Borg’s for the next week. Our daughter, Janell is planning on coming next week, so we needed the car for that week. We parked the car, handed over the keys and had a pizza at the pizzeria across the street. It was huge! Nice thin crust and tasty.

Then we went to the new apartment that the new couple will move into as soon as they get here in a couple of weeks. We just wanted to check on it to make sure it was ok, ran some water through the pipes and flushed the toilets. Took some more pictures to send them with pictures of their building at night. We took the tram back to Alvik and then a train back to our station.

Tuesday – This morning it was 4.3*C which is 39*F. Broke out the light jackets today! Good day at work. We got a Marco Polo from Jennifer and the boys showing us their new bunnies and pigs. So cute.

Wednesday – We normally don’t use our phones on the train – everyone else is either listening to music or scrolling. Today on the way to work we were looking at a Facebook post and we missed our Fridhemsplan stop! When we looked up and we saw where we were …oops we didn’t jump up because we knew we didn’t have enough time to get out of the train…(we have seen several people do this in the past) so we rode to the next stop, got off and got on the next train going back to where we needed to be.

We got a call from Jaylen and Blaire because our washer had stopped working! We tried to remember when we bought it, did we have a warranty and finally Jaylen pulled out the washer and fixed it! Yeah! We’ve been gone too long!

Thursday – Work was good, the temperature is still getting lower, it’s now down to 4*C and we are wrapping up in blankets to watch a movie.

Friday – Our daughter, Janell made it to Arizona and Jenn picked her up in Show Low. Then she will fly over to see us Monday/Tuesday! We were home to do laundry at 4 pm.

Saturday – Our Granddaughter Lucy’s baptism was today! We did get a Marco Polo at the party afterwards and got to see almost everybody.

We cleaned the apartment – took us a half an hour. Then we headed out to the Science Museum. We took the train to T-Central and then walked to the bus to get to the “Tekniska Museum”.

It is a huge building; thank goodness they had a map. Technology is amazing. The displays would show you the original invention and then move forward as the world progressed. We stayed until it closed at 5pm.

John's Favorite

Interactive room

Different lanterns used in mines
There was a mini mine here

Bumble Bee

Crushed SAAB

Aromatic Oils from India that were exhibited at The
Great Exhibition in London in 1851**** JODY! and soap
There are 48 samples of these Aromatic Oils They were made
from plants and were used in perfumes