Arlanda Airport Hotel

We eat breakfast in the room. We bought fruit and yogurt at the store before we came home. We take the sheets and towels to the Studentbåstader and turn in the keys. You are supposed to clean the room after you stay in it. Such a slick deal.

We do some shopping at Ryd Centrum in the Hemköp. We buy Karli a plant for her room. We also buy some things she needs for herself. We buy candy selection to take home. I am so impressed with the store. Everything seems of such good quality.

We go to the car and make sure there is nothing there that she needs. She has been traveling with us for 3 weeks in this car and I am sure has things that we are not seeing. But we have to say good bye. Arvid wants to avoid night driving. It will take about 3 hours to get back to Stockholm. The next time we will see Karli it will be late June. Gosh, that is over 5 months! But we know she will have a great time living here. Her new classes look great! At least she hopes to get them.

We drive to Norrköping. We have some things that we need to pick up for the grand kids. We drive to the shopping center where we bought Karlis coat. We find some nice things. We go upstairs in H and M and across on the sky bridge. There is a wonderful cafe there. We have a great stir fry meal. They have great espresso and teas. We also have some wonderful pastries. Yummy! Mission accomplished. All gifts bought, tummy full. On to the airport hotel.

We follow the signs to Arlanda. We decide to get off at an exit for Arlanda City and just ask at a gas station. We drive a bit and we see the sign for the hotel. What luck! We go in and carry all the bags with us. Yikes! Glad we bought the extra bag. We have a lot of gifts and mementos.

Arvid takes off to return the car to the rental place. I stay to organize the bags. It may take him a while so I have plenty of time to get everything straight. I also am going to organize the carry-ons with the Ziploc of liquid, etc. It is a nice room. It has a big bed for us, a long desk at the window, nice big TV and a bathroom with a porthole in it! Weird actually. There are two beds that you can pull down from the wall much like in the room of the ferry. They are single beds that fold down to make bunked beds.

Arvid comes back quicker that we both predict. It went slick as a whistle! He caught early buses and all the timing was right. We go downstairs to find something to eat. They have a wonderful evening buffet but we do not think we are that hungry. We look at the other choices and decide to take the buffet after all. It has appetizers, soup, salad, reindeer steak, chicken and fish choices, vegetables, 3 kinds of potatoes and rolls. There is a dessert bar as well. It is very nice and good food. We enjoy it a lot.

We go back to the room early, request a wake up call and go to sleep for the last time in Sweden. Good trip. We will miss being in a country which values all of its citizens and takes care of them. I hope when we go home the Obama administration will be able to make the changes necessary so the US will put its value on people rather than corporations.