Lost and homeless

June 29th
After breakfast in our hotel, we noticed that the clouds were dark outside and we actually heard thunder!  Probably about 40 minutes before we had to leave the hotel, it started raining.  We hoped that it would at least lessen up a little bit by the time we had to cart our luggage down the street to the taxi.  And it did, by the time the taxi got there, it was just sprinkling so that was good!
Our flight back to Stockholm was good.  Once in Stockholm, we caught a bus again to the Quality Hotel and thought we'd have a little time to relax before heading back to the airport to meet Rebeca's friends Karen and Lars to go out to dinner with them.  Well, we had no sooner gotten our stuff settled in our room then Rebeca knocks on our door and says that her email shows that we were supposed to be meeting them RIGHT NOW!!
So we all scrambled to get more or less ready (we heard we were going to be going to a really nice restaurant in their hotel).  Oh well, jeans it was going to have to be for us since that's all we brought.  We took the next shuttle to the airport and met Karen and Lars by their hotel and then we find out that they are driving us INTO Stockholm since we were going to a nice restaurant downtown.  Nice!
We all enjoyed a Smorgasbord at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm and it was very very nice.  Excellent choices of food in the buffet with everything very tasty!  We had a great evening with them.  After dinner, we walked across a bridge to a little island and just admired the scenery and enjoyed the company as we s trolled.  When it was time to go back, Lars dropped us off at our hotel which was so nice of him.  We had figured we'd all go back to their hotel and we'd catch the shuttle back to our hotel.  Lars dropping us off made the evening that much more relaxing.

June 30th
Rebeca left back to Tucson this morning which of course was a sad thing for us.  It was the true ending of the actual main reason we are over here in Europe anyway.

So, anyway, in the morning we got up early so that we could see Rebeca and her friends off for their 7:30am flight.  Then we sadly made our way back to our hotel and had breakfast.  Elton John music was playing while we ate breakfast and that made me sad yet laugh because it reminded me of a video Rebeca made while we were driving on a trip and Rebeca commented, "This is the kind of music we have to listen to on this trip!"  Yeah, an Elton John song was playing in the background in the video.

We spent one more night at the Quality and the next morning we took a taxi to the next place we were going to stay for a while.