First Night

Apologies for the tardiness of this post! I meant to update my blog as soon as I had a chance to settle down but are you really that surprised that it didn't happen? ;P

Anyway! The flight was insane. I managed to sleep through the majority of it but my God! My bum is still crying out in agony even after sitting in an Economy Comfort chair. Thank God for my seat mate as well. He was an older gentleman but also a veteran international traveler so he was able to give my advice and tips on how to navigate through the Amsterdam airport. He was friendly but not overly so and left me alone to sleep. Perfect seat mate! Very much unlike the one I sat next to on my connecting flight... Man. Who would have thought that Germans were such cranky people? Sheesh.

Side note: Marcus sings while doing almost everything, haha. I can hear him in the shower right now.

It was so nice to finally reach Gothenburg. Going through that airport was the easiest I have encountered thus far. Didn't even have to go through security! It was set up a little differently than I'm used to but I managed alright. It was awesome to finally meet Marcus' family though I hate myself for being so shy around them. I didn't eat a whole lot at dinner time and I really hope that it didn't come off as rude. I was just shy as hell! Hopefully that will fade and I can get back to acting like myself.

Marcus and his family really seemed to like the gifts. It's always an awkward thing to get through on both ends but Marcus assured me that they really liked them. I couldn't explain Connie's gifts to save my life though, haha. She did use it at dinner though :) Marcus has THE coolest house by the way. All the houses in Sweden are awesome! I need to take pictures like the nerd tourist I am. That's another thing. I haven't taken ONE picture during my entire trip or my first night here. I apologize!

It's interesting that I still haven't had a holy-shit-I'm-finally-here moment XD Marcus' and my meeting each other was a very calm but happy moment. We both think the reason we don't get bouncy and silly is because we talk on a regular basis. Even though we don't see each other all the time, we figure we're just close enough not to act like pre-teens infected with Bieber fever.

After I got settled in and had dinner, we decided to head over to Simon's house to say hi. Emil and Simon were both watching the championships for LoL (League of Legends) which Marcus and I ended up getting sucked into and staying out until... well, we didn't get to sleep until almost 5 in the morning. Despite all the advice I received on going to bed at a decent hour, you all should know better! Well, it definitely came back and bit us in the butt since we didn't end up waking up until about 4 in the afternoon! Oh well, I probably needed that anyway so it's a good thing.

Marcus also has two of the cutest, fluffiest cats I've ever seen! Casper and Dotty. Or maybe it's Dotti... Either way, I must post pictures of these adorable fluffballs :D

Turns out, I kicked Thomas out of his room in order for me to stay here! XD He's sharing Marcus' room but I still feel a tad guilty, heh heh.

And that pretty much sums up what happened on the first night :) I'm probably forgetting something and that's why I should have written this yesterday when it was all still fresh in my mind. Meh :P Marcus kept the first night free for anything since he didn't want to throw me into a huge game of tag like we did for him xD All-in-all, the first night was very chill and I'll probably post more as I remember it. I think the most fun about this trip is hearing everyone speak to each other in Swedish. I can't understand a WORD of it other than "Simon", "Melissa", "Emil", "Hello", etc. Still fascinating though!

Hopefully I'll stop worrying, relax, and be myself on the remainder of this trip. NO MORE SHYNESS. Ugh.

Until the next update! Bye!