As promised here are some photos from our weekend in Stockholm. The red and white boats in this picture are two old boats that have been moored and converted hostels. We stayed on the bottom floor of the white boat. You can see from the picture how impossibly small our room was. Thanks to my astute decision to throw the paper sandwhich (paper-rock-paper) I beat Gabe in best of three rock-paper-scissors to win the right to sleep on the roomier bottom bunk. We avoided seasickness Friday night and then went to explore Stockholm on Saturday. Stockholm is a city of connected islands separating the inland lakes with the Baltic Sea. We took water taxis to the various island, the most interesting of which was the "Old Island" with its ancient buildings and narrow cobblestoned roads. The other highlight of the trip was seeing the Vasa. This was a warship from the 1600's that they recovered from the harbor and now have reconstucted 95% of it. It was amazing how large the ship was given that is was constructed 300 years ago. You can find out all about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_%28ship%29 .
That night was went to a pub to watch the Russia vs. Holland Euro soccer match and befriended a Texan businessman who bought all our rounds and a Scottish bartender with whom we argued the superiority of Kentucky bourbon and Scottich Scotch. The soccer match was actually entertaining, but I am really missing american baseball.
I bravely snapped the picture of the young Swedish guard in front of the Royal Palace. His helmet was just so cool.
3 comments:
Great pictures! believe it or not, I slept in just such a bunk bed on a ferry in Japan on an overnight trip, when I visited Joe on one of his sojourns in Japan! As I recall, there were four bunkbeds (8 beds) in that room.
Fun!
Did you hear that Bobby Curtis is going to run in the 5000 meter run in the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials, which begin in Eugene, Oregon this Friday? He will have to run faster than his best time to qualify, but he is going to give it a try.
Marymoo
I did read that article in the ourier online. I hope he does well, but not going to the Bejing Olympics and breathing all that polluted air might just be better for him in the long run (pun intended).
Good sir... you have indeed beaten me to Wimbledon, but did you shake hands with Billy from Predator?? In this way I believe we are now on even ground... Your move sir... your move...
James
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