Travel to Sweden - Part 2

Our 9.5 hour flight to Copenhagen was fairly smooth although Fredrik and I would have liked a lot more sleep. We thought we were golden when the kids fell asleep almost as soon as we took off but it didn't last long. They slept through dinner. We had plenty of food and really didn't need to eat beforehand. Linnea of course cannot eat the meal and Davin was asleep. Not that he would have eaten it anyway but it smelled good. It was a teriyaki chicken and noodle dinner with some fruit and a Kit Kat bar. When Davin did wake up, he ate 3-4 dinner rolls and the candy bar. He didn't end up sleeping for the remainder of our trip. I think it was too hard for him to sleep sitting up ... or it was too exciting. He did love the new Leapster hand held game that we bought him for the trip. Plus he loved watching all the movies on the plane too. He kept waking me up every hour or so for a new movie or to go potty. Linnea really wanted out of her car seat when she was awake but it was really hard to let her crawl around on the plane. Fredrik was sitting next to her on the plane so I am not sure what exactly he did to keep her entertained. 

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We landed in Copenhagen just fine and we had a nice gentleman from Sweden who helped us off the plane. Our stroller wasn't available when we landed but would be with our baggage which wasn't a short walk. Of course, there were no luggage carts to be seen until we got to the baggage claim either so it was nice to have an extra set of hands carrying things. Customs was uneventful and we got our baggage pretty quickly too. Even with our flight being delayed we still had about an hour to wait for our train. What I didn't realize until we got to Malmö was the short time we had to transfer trains! They didn't even check our tickets on the train from Copenhagen to Malmö so we could have taken any train really. They left every 10 minutes and the train ride to Malmö , Sweden was maybe 20 minutes or so? It would have been nicer to have more time in Malmö to transfer but we would have had to stand out in the cold longer. Also, we didn't have any Swedish money to rent a luggage cart so somehow Fredrik managed to haul our 4 bags all by himself to the next train platform. Thankfully, it wasn't far to go but it sure was a lot of work!

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We braved the 3 hour train ride to Mjölby, Sweden with no troubles but again there was little to no sleeping. I think the only one who got any sleep was Linnea and she was really cranky to have been woken up when we got to our destination. She cried all the way in the car to our final destination ... Motala, Sweden. I think she was also hungry but I couldn't sit next to her in the car due to all the extra car seat. Monika (Fredrik's mom) had rented a car for us and two car seats. Apparently there were only two types to choose from ... one that is rear facing which Davin is too big for and another booster seat that doesn't have a back to it. It just uses the seat belt strap and isn't very secure in my opinion. We might look at buying one while we are here since we need a booster seat anyway. I just hope the options for ones you buy as opposed to rent are more to our liking. 

At least it wasn't a long car ride ... maybe 30 mintues or so? We basically got to the apartment Monika had rented for us and crashed. We didn't wake up until 2pm the next day! Although it wasn't all sleep since that is another adventure on it's own!