like a kid in a candy shop

Gothenburg Universeum

If you are looking for a fun day out... look no further. The Gothenburg Universeum is right in the heart of the city (literally if you type Gothenburg into google maps, the marker comes up right next to this glass covered building) and when you enter the building and are whisked away up this elevator/ cable cart lift called a funicular. Then I felt like a child again.

A monkey tree hugging

 The rain forest section is full of monkeys and brightly coloured birds literally running around your very feet, not constrained by anything other than the occasional person in the way of the spring-leap-jump of the monkeys from rope to rope. (Queue Josh getting in the way of a monkey who started to screech before leaping between us).

A clown like monkey with professor-like side burns!

 This little fellow (above) looks like a mad scientist, and although these animals are probably not native to Sweden they have created this space that simulates the rain forest so closely that it started raining whilst we were walking around. If the cold gets to you, just pop inside and warm up!

The battle of the birds

In the tunnel of love

  Then there is a whole section of massive glass tanks and walkways full of all sorts of fish, sharks and one very impressive sword fish. Debating which tank we would rather swim in, meant I got freaked out by a wierd looking fish lurking at the bottom of a tank that I decided was more scary than the sharks because "it looked odd".

The camera was our play thing, we took so many photos that it took me all day to edit out all the blurry and out of focus ones, turns out that animals make me squeal like a child again.

A jelly fish dance.

 Finally, after my last post about how crazy the locals are for walking on the ice... I decided to give it a go. And, to my relief, there was not a single sign of the ice cracking. This is probably the last bit of water still completely ice as all the other rivers and lakes are thawing.

I think I better not go to the Universeum again for a while... in case I try to smuggle out a monkey. 

The run on water. Jesus eat your heart out.