On Monday, Johanna spent the morning planning out the weeks activities and it is going to be an interesting week. Johanna, Mom and I went for a walk in the morning and I worked on the blog. In the afternoon, Caleb and Johanna went to see Caleb's hemmatologists while Mom and I read and took a nap.

We then took a short trip up to see the ski jumps and look over the city of Falun where they live. Falun is their national training center for ski jumping.

This is picture of the ski jump taken from their flat with the zoom on. It doesn't look as scary from a distance, but up close it would be quite a thrill to go off of this. We will leave it to the brave and younger to tackle.

On the right is a closer picture of the ski jump that was taken right next to it. Notice Mom, Johanna and Caleb at the bottom of the picture to get a better idea of how tall the start is.

Of course, this is a picture looking up the take off ramp of the ski jump. It is a good think that we don't have one of these close to us in Sandy or I think Dallin or Daniel might have gone off of it already.

Finally, here is a picture looking down from the bottom of the take off ramp. Notice the steep drop off and the viewer seats or stands on the bottom right of the picture. You can see Falun in the background.

Down below the stands is the Falun Sports Center. It is really large and besides including a swimming pool and exercise facilities, there is even a large horse riding arena that you can see directly below the ski jump viewer stands. It is the oval dirt colored object.

Now, for a look at Falun. The tall brown tower is the famous copper mine and to the right is part of where it caved in. We are going on a tour of the mine today.
For Jarrod, you can see an electrical substation if you closely at the back of the picture.




On the left, is a picture to the right of town with a big lake in it. There are lots of pretty lakes.

The picture on the right is looking the opposite direction from town at the top of the ski jump parking lot.

On the way back to their flat, I took a picture of the home Johanna grew up in through the back window of the car. She grew up in the yellow house which is just across the street from the hospital that her father worked in for +20 years.

And of course, Caleb was enjoying the ride back home so that he could play with his new PlayStation 3 that he had us bring over to him.