Nothing too exciting has been going on here, except that I am experiencing my very first Autumn! It really hit me last weekend when I was on a run...it was really windy and leaves were falling like crazy. Aside from it getting colder (lows in the mid-to-upper 30s) and darker (there are 5 minutes less light each day), it's really pretty to see all the leaves changing colors.
Yesterday I spent the day with El and Kyle (2 of the other UT students here) at Bornsjön natureservat, a nature reserve southwest of Stockholm. The bus stopped at Salem Kyrka, a really old church built in like 1100. We walked around there a bit and then headed down the road to the nature reserve. Then we just spent the day just hiking and wondering through nature, and the perfect sunny and cool weather made it all the more enjoyable. In the middle of the reserve are large rock mounds that are actually graves from between 500 BC and 500 AD, where the inhabitants were cremated together and then buried under massive piles of granite...crazy stuff.
Oh ya and I obviously didn't end up going to Dublin for a half-marathon this weekend as you may remember me mentioning; flights just turned out to be too expensive. But here's an update on my semester travel plans: so far I've got a trip to Prague planned in mid-October, a week-long roadtrip in late October to the northernmost city in Sweden to see the northern lights, Greece/marathon plans in the works for early November, and also hoping to get in weekend trips to Copenhagen and/or Oslo in late November. Then I'll be flying home through Amsterdam so I'll spend a couple of days there as my last big hoorah. And mark your calendars - I arrive back in Austin at 10:45 pm on Sunday, December 20th!
My mom arrives here tomorrow morning and will stay for a week, so it will be nice to see her and do some more touristy things that I haven't really done since first arriving.
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I love walking around Ann Arbor lately because of the colorful fall leaves! It's so pretty. People take the fall season for granted here (at least I think so). I took a couple pictures of the leaves since my Mom and Sister wanted to see what it is like. Oh fun! :)
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