Wednesday and Thursday in Nora, Sweden

On Wednesday we took the train from Gothenburg to Örebro, which was about 3 hours and quite boring.  Our new friend Zoltan picked us up and we drove to his town, Nora.  We are staying at a brothers apartment, but he is gone so we have it all to ourselves.  There is no internet or tv there, its really strange, and also the cause of us not writing for a bit.  (When we first walked in we noticed right away it is a bachelor pad. Then after walking around a little we started getting nervous because there was no tv. We are going to be there for over a week so it might have gotten boring. -Eric)  After we got there on Wednesday Zoltan had to work, so we were left in an empty apartment, starving.  We walked down to the local ICA grocery store and set off to buy groceries, something we don't do very much.  After lots of debating and wondering around, we decided on some bread, cheese, sandwich meat, corn flakes, and milk.  Not exciting or delicious, but it gets us through breakfast and lunch cheaply.  (We had a little arguement over getting lettuce.  Don't worry we got some.  We need some healthy food. -Eric)  That evening we went down to Zoltan and Berit's house for hamburgers and beer, and met a few other local brothers at their house.  (But then after dinner we went back to the flat and discovered dozens of dvd's many of them being in English.  We can use this laptop to play the movies.  So now we have some entertainment if we get bored. -Eric)  There are about 10 Witnesses by our estimation within a 3 block area, so you run into them quite often.  On Thurday we took Zoltan's rowboat out to a nearby island, and then went swimming.  The water was very chilly again, but not near as bad as the ocean.  In the evening we went back for a spagetti dinner, and talked about our plans for the weekend, convention.