Sweden - Day 12

March 22, 2008 - Goteborg, Sweden

This is probably our last message from Goteborg. It's about 10:15 Saturday night and we're in the process of packing. We have a cab booked to the airport tomorrow at 8 am - our flight is at 10:55. So it's a quick, early breakfast and we're off!!

Had a relaxing morning today - wandered up the shopping avenue and stopped into a grocery store to pick up some things to make a lunch. Then Colleen and Paul headed up to the Scandinavium to see the men's final. While we were there, Charles, Michele and Tanith visited our hotel so we were sorry to miss them. However - it was worth it to be there when Jeff Buttle won the gold medal for Canada in men's. They had a live choir (about 8) sing the national anthems at the victory celebrations (I guess they had to learn all of the contenders' anthems) and they did a real fine job on 'O Canada'.

When we got back to the hotel Charles was still here and he told us there'd be a brief opportunity to see Tanith one last time about 6:30. So we headed up to her hotel and had a nice long chat and said our goodbyes. For the first time we asked Tanith for an autograph when she signed Colleen's skating ticket as a souvenir for her Grade 3 Class in Lansdowne.

Then we went with Charles and Michele to a nice restaurant about half a block from our hotel and had a great supper. There must be 100 restaurants within 4 blocks of this hotel!!!

Anyway - it's our last night here. This time tomorrow (actually about plus 5 hours) we'll be in Syracuse, preparing to head home. Hope we don't have to shovel the car out.