We haven't actually kept track of the rainy days since we came to Sweden two weeks ago, but today was about all we could take. It was just not supposed to rain today! We had looked forward to our day at Liseberg Amusement Park for so long, and it looked like it was going to be cloudy but humid from the forecasts and what we thought when we left Åsa and David's this morning--deciding to be optimistic and discarding our heavy rain gear just as we left their apartment.
We shouldn't have second-guessed ourselves.
We took the bus with Åsa to downtown Göteborg and had a quick downtown tour to get our bearings, including a little fika in an artists' quarters with little shops where candy, ceramic goods, silver jewelry, etc., were made and sold.
Åsa left us at the street car stop we needed to get to Liseberg while she left for work. The sun was shining as we headed off to Liseberg. However, no sooner had the doors to the street car closed than it started pouring.
By the time we got to the gate to purchase our passes, the rain had subsided, and we thought we were home free.
We rode the best rides--Uppswinget, Kanonen, Spinrock first
and were ready to go again but next had to go on
our favorite roller coaster, Balder--the biggest wooden roller coaster in Europe,
it started pouring again, and it virtually was non-stop the whole day. Needless to say, it was a mess. Blue raincoats bought in the little shops were everywhere, and though we did have two umbrellas, we could have brought an extra change of clothes and more raingear. We spent two hours in the arcade. Teenie and Scott would have loved all the pinball machines, including a Junkyard machine right besides the Addams Family one!
We played some pinnies, but it was for the rides we bought the all-day ride as long as you like tickets. 
Finally, Carina and Robby decided to join the drenched crowd and ride the roller coasters again with the rain pouring on them. Actually, Carina's puddle stomping got to be quite comical!
We left the park about 7:00 and within a few bus stops of where we should have gotten off to get to Åsa's, we realized we had missed the stop we needed to get off to connect to the next bus.
Luckily, we ended up in another part of town where, by chance, a guy who had been on our bus earlier that morning recognized us and told us that we were at the right stop to catch the bus we needed anyway, and that if we jumped on bus 17, we'd find our way back to where we needed to be. How odd that he had been on that same bus from which we left Åsa's that very morning! He helped us, and we were soon at the apartment wringing and drying our we things out. David and Åsa made us raggmunkar--potato pancakes--and Swedish pancakes, too.
We thought about a movie, but we decided to stay in and watch a Michael Moore movie with Swedish subtitles and talk and laugh about political correctness in both Sweden and the U.S. It really was a fun day despite this frustrating weather!
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