Scandic Hotel Ariadne Stockholm

... given sex-ed info and there were even kids playing memory! The cards were of naked body parts and the kids had to pair them up. They recognized everything else but had a hard time recognizing legs and feet. :) There's lots of booths everywhere and it had many different items from different places (India, Korea, etc.) We even found one from Denmark and they had... legos!! Yeap... Legoland's in Denmark, not Sweden. Well, I took a picture of the legos as it's gonna be the ...

... overweight. So we worked to ensure that all four of our checked suitcases would be less than 50 lbs a suitcase. This meant carrying the suitcase to the ship gym on the 9th deck and using the ship's scales. It actually took more that 1 trip per bag as we had to redistribute the contents of the suitcases. But we finally made the weight limit for the entire luggage. But this was finally accomplished by giving away some of our clothing and other supplies to the ship's ...

... do that. I was sad that we did not get to skate but I found out that Florence has an outdoor rink during Christmas time so I hope to make up for it by doing that. Afterwards we went back to the hostel for some downtime. Sara and I had to pack because we were leaving for our bus the next morning at 3 am. We met one of our roommates in our 12 person room at the hostel and ended up going to a bar with him that night. It was ...

... together not spread out like Hawaii. Altogether, Sweden has about 136,000 islands and is about the size of California. Many of them are very small, you <br>couldn't even get one house on it. Don kept looking for a nice little island to live on, but I reminded him it gets very cold here and they only have 6 hours of sunlight in winter, so he reconsidered. <br><br>Our first tour was a bus ride around the city ...

... if we should go out, or just buy some food. It was well after 8pm before I got up enough energy to even go an buy some. Not to strenuous actually, as there was a large supermarket across the street. I picked ups some bits and pieces that we could pick on with a glass of wine. It was a shame it was raining, because this was the day when all the 'old boys' brought their fancy cars out (from the 50th and 60th) and cruised up and down the street ...

... expensive. For example, a beer usually costs about 50 K which is approx. $8.50. I have barely been eating, surviving on the free bread that they give at cafes and the Swedish pepperkaker cookies I bought at the store. I took a little cooking class and learned how to make Samla which is the most delicious pastry I have ever tried. It is seasonal for fat tuesday, but the Swedes love it so much they eat it all the time around this season. It is leftover from when the Swedes were ...

... money back from Chicago for my two reserved nights and I prepared to make the 5 minute walk to his place, but unfortunately I was stopped by a massive Gay Pride parade. It seemed there was nothing to do but to patiently wait and watch the procession of Gay: students, families, doctors, pirates, and folk dancers, and Harry Potter characters, men in leather, men in beards, topless female boxers and Queer leaders. It was all really quite colorful and ...

... a poor foreigner like me. I accidentally got the mobile phone number of a very important person at Oslo airport. His collegue gave it to me. Lucky for me, he accidentally called me back. It did not sound like he would be open to meet with me or schedule a coneference call. But he was telling me lots of information over the phone. So I got all the information I ...

... Really?" I told him yes, and he grudgingly gave me my free ticket to heaven. Once inside the museum, we saw the ship, and the skeletal remains of the people who died on the ship, a video about why the Vasa sank, and a whole plethora of cool stuff. The sailors were also in the museum, and every time we turned a corner, there was a man in blue smiling at us. When we left the museum, we walked around the island we were on for a while, and then caught a bus back to old ...

Day 5 - Sweden *** So I know you have all be waiting for my exciting blogs.. I started the country hopping part of my trip and hadnt found time to update them, so now I am going to try and update the last few days of my blogs in one sitting. It should be exciting considering at the moment I am in an internet cafe that is about three hundred degrees in budapest with all sorts of sketch balls around me. *** This is my last day in Sweden, tomorrow I am going to be ...