Greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden!

My European vacation started Friday morning, at 8:30. I headed down to the license branch to get my new car plated and registered, which is a different story altogether. However, all that was a precursor to our leaving our house for the Indianapolis airport at 11:30. Our flight plan was as follows: catch a plane from Indy to Philadelphia, from Philly go on to Brussels, Belgium, and from Brussels to our final destination of Gothenburg, Sweden. The entire trip was supposed to take around 14 hours and move us part of the way around the globe, landing us in Sweden around 11:30am local time Saturday morning.
The first hitch occurred when our flight from Indy was delayed approximately an hour and a half past its original departure time. The good news was that the actual flight gained an hour on the estimated flight time; the bad news was that this still put us getting in at Philly a half-hour later than expected, when our layover there was only supposed to be an hour anyway. The end result was the Rockey family running through the airport while a cordial female voice announces over the loudspeaker that they were "Now boarding flight XXX to Brussels, Rockey family to gate A4; This is the last call for the Rockey family." Thankfully, our out-of-breath selves made it to the gate just in time, and we caught our 7 hour flight to Brussels. Thankfully the flight was uneventful, and we made it into Europe with no major hassles in security. From a timing perspective: we departed Philly about 6:30pm, and arrived in Brussels around 8:30am.
The plane from Brussels to Sweden was fairly small, and relatively unpopulated, which was nice, because we had the opportunity then to actually stretch our legs during the flight. We also had the opportunity during this flight to look at some interesting landscape, as we most likely flew over the Netherlands, and aerial observation of this region was very interesting.
Jim Brinson was at the Gothenburg airport to pick us up when he arrived, and he drove us from the airport to his house, where we'll be staying for the next couple days (until Wednesday). We had the opportunity to explore several facets of Swedish life already: we took a small trip to downtown Gothenburg using Swedish public transit went shopping in a Swedish grocery store (which was very confusing and only manageable with the help of our friends here, and then visited the church at which the Brinsons are serving. It was a unique group of people at that church; this particular saturday afternoon they were hosting an event for area children as an outreach to start forming relationships. There were a group of college students from a university in Florida that chose to do mission work at this particular church for five weeks, so they were there as well.
Well, that about sums it up for the first day here in Europe. Hopefully lots more to come!