In the morning we had eggs and Swedish flat bread for breakfast and then met another family friend, Brit, who drove us out to Helsingborg. Nate, JJ, and I first walked over to the main shopping street and wandered around into different stores. Then we walked up the hillside to see the keep that overlooked the city. The view of the city was great from there, even though the keep wasn't a full size castle or anything.
Next we took a short ferry ride over the water to Helsinger in Denmark. We walked around the streets for a bit but everything in the shops was relatively expensive because of the exchange rate. We also saw Hamlet's castle from a distance, but it looked like there was construction going on near it so we didn't get closer. We traveled back to Helsingborg by ferry and walked along the docks until we found a small Swedish restaurant. I ordered sill – traditional Swedish marinated red herring – and it was fairly spicy but I enjoyed it.
We walked up the hillside for a while until we got to Brit's apartment and met JJ's mom and Brit there. After talking with them for a little bit we headed back to the train station and took a train to Malmo and then a bus from there to Looma. At Monica's house we had this tasty quiche pie kind of thing for dinner, which had ham and mushrooms and broccoli inside it. Over dinner conversation I found it interesting that Swedish students take 9 years of English in school because no other countries speak Swedish. They also learn up to 2 other languages in school, usually French or German, but Spanish is becoming more popular. We were all tired so we decided to not go out and watched Snakes on a Plane on TV instead.
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