Svergie, tack tack!

Swedish sometimes doesn't sound like a real language. I know that it is, but there is so much inflection in the words that it really sounds silly. Don't believe me? Next time you've had a little bit too much to drink, look up something Swedish on youtube and check it out yourself, it is funnier if you're drunk, most things are!

Linguistic issues aside (it doesn't really matter as Swedes speak perfect English) Stockholm is awesome =)

We are stayed the first few nights with friends I met in Paris in '05, who have an awesome flat on a very chic island (Stockholm is bunch of islands) Our fourth day, however, they left for Barcelona and we are now house-sitting, also known as staying in their flat for free while they're gone! This is a really terrific city and although I take issue (as a part norsk) of Stockholm totting itself as the capitol of Scandinavia, it is pretty spectacular. They have a number of super cool museums, the coolest being a 400 year old boat - yeah. This boat sank on it's way out of the harbor, lived at the bottom of the Baltic for 330 years, and was then dug out of the muck and restored over a 30 year period. I understand if that sounds a little dull....but its not. This is no ordinary boat. It is the biggest wooden boat I have ever seen-massive I'm sure it is the size of my apartment building and it is incredibly well preserved. Not sure if you know, but Sweden is cold! Which helps preserve things in the water. The water also doesn't have a lot of salt which also helped the ship to stay in such good shape.

On the same island as the ship museum, The Väsa, is an amusement park, a really awesome one. Since there isn't a lot of space here, the park is very compact and everything is super close....not in a scary way, but in a you don't have to hike all over the park to get to rides kind of way! Our last night with J and N, we spent at the park, which was open until 11pm (and of the midnight sun and all) and we had a blast! The roller coasters were amazing and a little bit terrifying. I don't really remember being properly scared on roller coasters before, but I guess I'm getting old =(

We met up with some friends of Mike's the next night, who took us to this hilarious medieval bar that only serves mead. It is made on the premises, so you have no way of knowing how strong it is. It wasn't super strong when we were there, but it is so incredibly easy to drink that at regular strength you can still get drunk much faster than you were expecting. The locals were also caught off guard as the place was full of drunk swedes singing songs....yes, they get drunk and sing drinking songs...its hilarious. Although, when in a cave such as this bar it does tend to get a little loud and I'm feeling a little hoarse today for it.

We have three more days here and I'm hoping to make the most of it, I'll keep you posted!

tack tack!