Stockholm Syndrome

This Saturday Me, Noemi (from France), and Herman (from Germany) were escorted to Stockholm by our favorite Swedish classmates Elveda, Anuja, and Kristina. (You'll eventually see pictures of everyone).

First we woke up bright and early to take the bus. Herman, me, and Kristina at the bus station excited for our upcoming adventure.
I pretty much owe this whole trip to Kristina. She was kind of our director, we would have been lost the entire time if it wasn't for her!

So first we just went walking around the city looking at all the shops. There is so much I want to get for everybody! But for the most part what you'll see is: wooden horses (classical Swedish toy), blue and yellow flags, shirts, and jerseys, annd a lot of Viking stuff.

Example of wooden horses (they were so small...awwww)
And lots of Viking stuff!
From left to right is: Anuja (Swedish), Noemi (French), Kristina (Swedish), Me (Awesome-American), and Elveda (Swedish).

After looking at all the tourist shops we headed for the royal castle where I took a lot of pictures of gaurds that never move and the gorgeous beautiful church! Pictures don't do it justice. It's beautiful. And everything is so old. They had books there from the 1500's and some of the statues were from the medieval times. It's amazing how they made such beautiful statues with...well what kind of tools did they even have?
We played around more in the streets of Stockholm. There are so many beautiful things there I was taking pictures of everything! We found a small alley and tried to stand in between the two.
The girl behind me is Elveda (she is my favorite but don't tell the others).
I kept taking pictures of buildings and statues and all my friends said it was boring and I needed to be in them...so....
I also Carl Von Linne's old house which was AWESOME because I love science. I tried to go in, but it was locked.


Our next stop was to Skansen which is kind of a zoo, but more like a history museum. It has old houses from old-time Sweden and shows what life was like in different parts of Sweden. It was pretty cool, I definitely learned a lot. We got to take a little boat trip there which was really pretty and fun.
Our boat (or båt in Swedish...pronounced boat) to Skansen.
Me and Kristina trying to look pretty despite the wind
Arrival to Skansen!
After this I got kind of tired of taking pictures. But mostly its all of pretty scenery and animals. We were hoping to go to the Vasa Museum and shopping, but were way too exhausted after all our walking (and the shops were closed by the time we were finished at Skansen). So we headed back to the train station, got some Burger King, almost missed the train after running for our lives to catch it and enjoyed our 40 minute ride reminising on our day. It was definitely a great day. I love Stockholm, I love my Swedish friends.

Now I get to start an even harder course on Monday !!!! Hooray.

So come visit me and I will take you to Stockholm and you will love it like I do :)