MY TRIP TO EUROPE WITH MY MOTHER CONTINUED

This is my passport picture, just thought some of you might wonder what I looked like at that time. Well, back to the doings. Another thing I should let you all know right up front is that when we had a day or half of a day, we would take those bus tours and see whatever we could along the way, in Norway we saw the Fjords and museums and where Greig spent his time writing all the beautiful music he wrote. In Sweden we saw the parks where all the big fat naked people's statutes were, I walked through it but Mom stayed on the bus as she had turned her ankle that morning and it was hurting so she didn't feel like walking. When we got on the ship between Stockholm and Helsinki, we found out it was an overnight trip and the great huge room where there were cots or fold down chairs for us to sleep on had been fumigated for bedbugs or cockroaches or something, so we just had to look for some other place to rest our weary bones.

As we were wandering through out the ship we ran across two couches that had 3 college age boys sitting on them, and we stopped and asked if they had the couches reserved for the night and they said yes, but we could make a deal with them if we wanted to. The deal was, if we would watch their backpacs and not let anything happen to them while they went to the dance and games and stuff they were all doing, we could sleep on their couches and they would sleep on the floor when they got through. Oh, happy happy day we were more than happy to make that kind of a deal! We found out the one boy was from California and he was a retuned missionary and was going to B.Y.U. Another boy was from California and going to medical school at the U of U and the third was a student at another college getting an engineering degree.

The next morning we offered to buy them breakfast for their generosity but they totally declined. We told them then "when you get back into school next year, call us and we will invite you to a Sunday dinner", of course we never heard from them again. Over the years, I've thought fondly of them on occasion.

While we were on the boat, we found out if we had gotten visas while here in the U.S.A. we could have gone from Helsinki to Russia for a few days, and I thought that would have been nice. When we were ready to get off the ship coming back from Helsinki, we just got on the train that was on the bottom of the ship and just rode it into Copenhagen, Denmark. That was really neat. We spent about 4 or 5 days in Copenhagen and that will be my next entry so come back, won't you?