Elba Island Dinner Party & Sauna

Tuesday evening was spent on the island of Elba. It has a restaurant on it and we thank our gracious hosts Thomas & Annette Wistrand (Pete's host family) for the wonderful dinner! The weather today was rainy off & on, but cooperated with us for the dinner & sauna. These pictures are in reverse chronological order, so if you'd like, scroll down and work backwards! Tomorrow, we all have our vocational visits and are most excited for that! We will continue to keep this blog posted to let everyone know the fun times we are having here in Västerås!

Cassie & Pia on the sauna raft after a nice 10 second dip in the 50 degree water! Pia is Cassie's gracious host and also a professional photographer in Västerås!

Here is a view of us from the sauna raft.

After dinner we headed to the sauna! This is a Scandinavian tradition and the water was running right around 50 degrees and definitely felt like it after we jumped in to cool down!

Here is a view from our dinner table looking out over Lake Mäleren. Not a bad view, ey?

And, ofcourse, Joe & Eric on the other side of the Koala Cafe!

Cassie, Kristi, & Pete sitting about 20 feet up on the Koala Cafe art piece on the island of Elba! This was created by Mikael Genberg, a famous Swedish artist. He also created the Otter Inn!

Here we are on the way to the island, Elba. This is actually a hotel! It is the Otter Inn. There are 2 beds underwater and the fish can look at you!---kind of like an inside out aquarium!

Kristi & Cassie were in charge of making sure the libations were in order for tonight's dinner party & sauna at the island of Elba!