Easter Adventure in Uto

For Easter weekend I went to Uto with a group of people from my department. The trip was kind of thrown together last minute. Since it seems that most people here leave town for Easter, those of us left behind went out to Uto, which is part of the Stockholm archipelago, for 3 days. There ended up being 9 of us, with 8 countries represented (US, Canada, Sweden, Columbia, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, and Australia).It takes about 3 hours to get to Uto using public transportation on a holiday weekend, the last hour of which is by boat. We all ended up getting up really early on Saturday to make the morning boat (there are only 2 a day).We stayed in stugas (little cottages) that were behind a main house. This was one of our 2 stugas.
When we arrived, Don, the owner of the house (and the stugas), invited all nine of us to his yard for a "welcome drink". He was very impressed at how multi-national our group was. He was a talker so he told us all about his island while asking us about our home countries.Next, we went into the town center - which consisted of a grocery store, a bakery, a clothing and knickknack store, and a bicycle shop. We found the bakery amazing. There was a rack of different breads with prices and a box of money. No one was working there! You picked up your bread and left your money. There was actually a good amount of money in the box. We were feeling kind of silly here.We rented bicycles for the weekend so that we could see the entire island. (This was the first time I've rode a bicycle since I could drive.) On Saturday, we biked around the northern part of the island for a couple of hours. The scenery was beautiful. Here's just one example.After that, we relaxed on the porch and enjoyed the rest of the sunshine. After salmon and potatoes for dinner, we played cards and chatted for a while. We were all exhausted so we were all in bed by 10:30. To be continued......