Liseberg (Amusement Park in Goteborg, Sweden)

 Do you like amusement parks?

Maybe you do, like us. Or maybe your experience has just been the local "Saanich Fair" at home. Or maybe it's been spending loads of money to wait in line with over-stimulated children, like what can happen at DisneyLand.

So if you were traveling with your family for one year around Europe, would you go to any amusement parks? Would you try to hit them all? Or none?

We really like them. I can't ride all the rides like I used to but I still love being there and riding what I can and watching the kids and their STOKE. We love the people watching. We don't really do much of the food or games, but sometimes the entertainment / shows can be fun.

So we decided not to go to "Tivoli" in Stockholm but to go for it and do Liseberg in Goteborg. And I should mention that school went back on Aug 15 in both Norway and Sweden. So our time in Sweden has been quite calm and quiet. There are way less tourists around and many activities and schedules have switched away from their summer schedule. So Liseberg was closed Mon and Tues and open Wed from 15:00-22:00. Tickets for our family to ride unlimited rides for these 7 hours cost about $155 Canadian.

The hardest couple of things were:

1) waiting until 3pm to get started - the kids were VERY excited all day waiting to go

2) Jason had some work commitments part way through, so he participated hard, then left to find a quiet place to work for a bit, and then was able to join us again and go hard again. Nice job remote working, Jason!!

And then we learned that there were basically no line ups. The max we waited all evening was 10 min. There is a virtual ticket thing (like FastPass at Disney) so we made good use of that and used it again and again and again. 

I'm uploading videos of the rides, including one Jason took of me riding a roller coaster where I'm quite scared but trying to be optimistic, on you tube because loading videos here is too hard. Superfans of the MOJO family and/or of amusement park rides, check out these 10 videos:

https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCiKP7Q6HbU99WG5bJk7jD5Q

All in all, it was amazing and super worth the money to go. I can't say what it might be like for line ups and value in the middle of a summer weekend, but I feel like we lucked out with our timing and it was fantastic.

BUT unfortunately on the way home, at about 9:40pm, on the bus, Jason turned green. He made it through the bus ride, but then got off the bus at our stop and ran to a public trash can and threw up. He did a great job to manage it, stay clean, get home and go to sleep. 

Also, we don't tend to throw up much in our family so this has been a bizarre part of our experience. In our 15+ years of being married, I've only seen him be sick a few times!

Anyway, hopefully that's the end of the throwing up and we are good to go without being sick anymore!