After teaching in the morning (Proverbs and a short summary of Lamentations), Elenn and I went to Uppsala. We walked, as I guided my bike.
Anya had found a bike at a used bike shop by her school, so we went to check it out and ended up buying it. Elenn will be using it while here, and Anya will use it after her loaner bike needs to be returned.
Then Elenn and I biked over to the cathedral.
The cathedral is the tallest in Scandinavia.
After lunch at the cathedral cafe’ (because it was very close to our next stop across the street), we went to the Gustavianum. The oldest surviving building of the university is now a museum. It has the anatomical theater, where cadavers were examined for medical student training.
The museum has an odd variety of things from an Egyptian mummy to an 1981 Osborne computer.
It also had a nail and fragments from Jesus’ cross (according to the label). No, I don’t believe it.
One of my favorite things was Celsius thermometer. Yes, the one who developed the temperature scale (though freezing was at 100 and boiling at 0). He was from Uppsala. (We saw the location of his grave in the Old Uppsala church two days ago.)
We biked over (and walked our bikes up the hill) to the castle.
After a quick visit to the university library reading room and shopping for a few things from the main walking street, we went home.
I worked on my paper all evening. It is taking shape, but I still have things to develop and figuring out how to streamline a bit for the presentation.
With blessings,
Beth