Clubbing!

Today was a long day. I am pretty sure that everyone slept in late because some of them went out late last night and everyone in general, was tired from getting up early every day during the past week. Around noon, the girls left to go around the city and I stayed in bed for another hour. Then I got up, showered and decided to go find Slottsskogen, a big park nearby with a zoo, garden, etc. in it. I went about 3 blocks up the street and there it was and the Göteborgsvarvet (a massive half-marathon with over 30,000) was going through there. I decided to walk around the animal areas and enjoyed seeing all the animals around there and then I saw the runners going by a different side of the hills. I walked down and decided to follow the runners, thinking that it would loop back around somewhere (and I didn’t know it was a half-marathon… I thought it was short). I went about 2-3 km with the runners and then we got to a big bridge. I knew this was one of the bridges that connected the south side of Goteburg (where we were) to the north side but it wasn’t on my map so I turned around to head back to the hostel. I got somewhat confused as to where I was and when I thought I had figured it out, I ended up walking 15 minutes in the wrong direction before actually checking my map. I got going the right way again and made it home awhile later. I took a nap for a few hours and then everyone agreed that we would go dancing tonight. Around 10:30 we headed to downtown Goteburg to try to find this club called Trädgår'n. After getting lost around Central Station a few times and then asking for directions (and having a woman tell us we were too young to get in… the age limit is 25 for clubs here even though the drinking age is 18), we made our way down the busy street that it is off of. We saw the place and it was dark and shady and we didn’t feel good about it. Therefore, we decided to keep walking and find another place. We ended up at the Hard Rock Café but the age limit there was 25 also. After asking the security guard where younger people go, we showed him our id’s and he just let us in. Suffice it to say, we had a great night. We danced, the girls drank (I was the responsibly mother ducky tonight), and had fun. We did have a few “creepers” (older or just weird guys who would come up and dance with us) come around but we stuck together as a group and had each other’s backs. I could go into detail on the hilarious drunk moments some people had but I’ll spare everyone. We left around 3:15 am and got off the tram around 3:45. As we were walking up the hill to our place, the sun was already beginning to come on and now at 4:30 as I write this, it’s already light outside. We don’t have much a day planned tomorrow. We have to be out of here by 11:00 and then we are going shopping at Nordstan (the big mall) and possibly taking a boat tour of the city. Off to get what little sleep I can right now.