Pictures from Garpenberg... and such.

Okay so I figure I should just go ahead and bombard you with pictures! It will really color up my blog. So here it goes...
Garpenberg: a winter wonderland!

In this picture you can see part of the house we stayed in, it is the far left (you might need to click on the picture so you can see it).

I didn't take a better picture of the house, I was not thinking of the blog I guess. :P

The picture on the right, however, is the door to the house we stayed in. :)

These pictures are from walks we went on paths and what I believe to be logging roads.

This is one of my favorite pictures. I will tell you the story behind it too. :) Because I know you are dying to hear it... So on our walk, I stumbled upon these deer tracks they weren't very clear at first, kind of frantic. Then I noticed another set of tracks along with them. It was a chase. But the deer tracks seemed so graceful, the other tracks (dog, wolf, or possibly fox, I don't really know) were not as graceful. The deer seemed so in control of the situation by the tracks it made, weaving from the road into the woods then back out again. Going on forever down the road, probably a half mile, until they weaved off the path I was walking and I could no longer follow them.

On the right are more tracks, and now that you know the background you will probably be able to make out the tracks.

This water was so beautiful! It was so dark, which made it look even colder! I love the layers of ice on the sides, and that this has not frozen over because of the flow.

A walk in the other direction. The main building from behind.

On our walk we found a bowling alley, only it isn't called bowling (it's kägelbana). It is still similar to ten-pin but it is played with a smaller, wooden ball on a more narrow lane. The lane is a raised platform, which widens at the end near the pins. It is not an easy game, luckily with the snow it sort of paved a path so the ball didn't fall off the lane so much. It didn't help that the ball was a bit broken and therefore lopsided. :P

Okay, well this is all I will write for now. I will do more tonight, hopefully. Now I am off to fika in Gamla Stan with the other exchange students. Har det bra. :)