Three perfect days in Stockholm are about done, we leave for Amsterdam tomorrow morning on the plane. We arrived Monday night and were so excited when Sandra and her boyfriend Yassir picked us up, especially because we flew in at 11:30pm!
The first two days were beautiful weather, cold and clear to walk all around town.
Sandra had Tuesday off work and school and so took us via the train system into town, she lives in a beautiful apartment in Huddinge just outside of Stockholm. Of course, we forgot the camera the first day but just Josh and I returned Wednesday to take what we missed. On Tuesday we were watching the changing of the guards at the castle and the youngest princess drove out and right by us! We would have never known, but Sandra recognized her imediately, apparently it is very rare for regualar people to see them in person. This is not the one who will be crowned Queen and therefore is allowed to drive by herself.
Wednesday we took the boat shuttle across another island part of Stockholm, the city is made up of 14 total islands most connected by bridges. We found the Vasa museum where the Vasa ship,a Swedish warship, sunk in the harbor in 1627 and was salvaged 333 years later. Now the ship is 95% original and was actually very amazing to see and learn about! Plus, there was an English tour so we understood what we were seeing.
Today Josh, Sandra and I took a boat through the Archipelago and´stopped at Sandhamn island. There are about 130 small islands off the East coast and many people have vacation homes for the summer on them. Although it was very rainy and windy, we braved the cold under layers and walked around the island. After an amazing lunch of Sill (herring) fish they eat for celebrations such as Midsummer and Christmas time. Sandra and I had Swedish pancakes and Josh tried another traditional dish of flat fish.
Tonight we saw the lights of Stockholm at night with the four of us going into to town for dinner and to look around, getting the full city naration we could only find from those who grew up here!
An amazing trip and we will get pictures up soon. I am going to try to link a new Flickr site here for pictures from Berlin to see if it works. Pictures from Sweden are up on facebook (Mom and Dad, sign up for facebook and add josh as a friend to see ALL the pictures! haha). Let us know if the links work.
We will check in from Amsterdam
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2 comments:
It seems like you're having a perfect time! We are loving the blog, all my friends are following as well. We are all wishing it was us!!! So glad you're having fun. Love you both!
It sounds like you guys are having so much fun! I miss you and I am so jealous. Hope the rest of your travels are amazing!
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