by Patricia
PART 2 / PART 3
On the Friday in the Sports Break, me and my family travelled to Örebro, a city two hours away from Stockholm. I was excited for this trip since my dad had said so much about the opportunities we have, from water park to Toys R Us.
PART 2 / PART 3
On the Friday in the Sports Break, me and my family travelled to Örebro, a city two hours away from Stockholm. I was excited for this trip since my dad had said so much about the opportunities we have, from water park to Toys R Us.
After two hours of driving, we arrived to Gustavsvik, a leisure time place in Örebro. The place is based on a water park, just like the place where we went in Uppsala this January.
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When picking up the keys for our house, we were told that we'll live in a "stuga". A "stuga" is a Swedish word for little house, like a cottage. It was about five minutes to get there from the reception, and on the way, we saw lots of different "stugas". There were the really small ones, all wooden, even from the inside. They were all empty now, probably because they weren't heated and it was still winter in Örebro, snow everywhere. Next to the small stuga group, we could see medium ones. The buildings were bigger, and one building had two sides; two different parts to rent. Our stuga was one of these medium ones, number 31. I was amazed by how modern it was from the inside compared to the smaller stugas. It had everything, a living room- kitchen- entrance combination, a bathroom in a separate room, and one bedroom with a bunk bed in it. The medium stuga meant to be 5 star rated, and let me tell you, I approve! We even discovered that they had wifi in the stugas, because every teenager needs that. :)
After we settled in, we ate lunch that my mum cooked in this stuga, trying out the modern oven. I read a magazine I found about Örebro later, which I found interesting. It said there is a famous museum which seemed just like the Tekniska Museet back in Stockholm. I also read about Örebro's water tower, and a "slott", which is a Swedish word for castle. I wondered if we'll visit any of these places.
Later, my dad told us that there's a LEGO shop near by. Of course we got excited, I mean, LEGO is amazing. ;) But after listening to him, it turned out this one's the biggest LEGO shop in Sweden!
The place was really nice, and it was surprisingly full of LEGOs. We stayed there until the closing time, observing everything, because I've never seen this much LEGO in one place yet!
After getting home with some freshly bought products, we decided to visit Gustavsvik's water park as a nice ending of the day. I saw a map of the park earlier, so I was expecting lots of slides and jungle pools. When we got there, I wasn't disappointed!
Honestly, this water park was way too scary for me. Those slides… I screamed all the way. Turned out that following my sister and my dad was a really bad idea, because they only took the dangerous-looking slides. There was a fast, dark one, which was scary, but the worst of all was the "onion" slide. It started out normal, then it became one single circle, which made me spin around all the way, then eventually, I fell into the water. Never again.
Just like in the LEGO shop, we stayed here until closing time as well. This had been a perfect ending of the day, I hoped we can come back here tomorrow, but I also remembered that there are lots of other things we planned to do in Örebro! I wonder what's the plan for tomorrow...
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