Welcome to Stockholm

Howdy Friends and Family! Welcome to Stockholm, Sweden in the daylight! The day found us back on the road headed into the city of Stockholm. It was a day of sight seeing and shopping! We started our day off visiting the work place of Julia's dad, Peder. He works in a large construction company called NCC. We were only able to go into the reception area of the office building but it was amazing!

From there we met Ann-Louise, Julia's Mom and she joined us for lunch. We ate lunch at a restaurant called Polpette. We tried bacon wrapped meatloaf

which we are told is a Swedish meal with lingon. That is red berries that taste similar to cranberries. Very tasty especially with the meat!

After lunch, Peder had to go into the office so we toured around with Ann-Louise. She took us to the castle and Parliment buildings and from there to Storkyrkan or in English, The Big Church. This church is known for the weddings that have been held there. The King and Queen were married there and then in 2010 the Crowned Princess was also married there. The windows and walls were beautiful and one section of the ceiling had interesting decor! There were stones covering the floor with the names of previous Kings who have died and a HUGE pipe organ! I am sure it put out the sound!

After that, we went down and caught the ferry over to another part of the city that is home to The Vasa Museum. This museum is about a ship that sank just over 200 meters from shore. It was very interesting with all the history there! We even found 'David's bones'.

When we finished touring the ship museum, we walked around Stockholm and met up with Julia. While we were waiting we stopped by a mall and had coffee and ice cream! I enjoyed the ice cream (carmel) while Dave and Ann-Louise had coffee. It also gave us a chance to warm up as it was a little chilly yesterday!

We met up with Julia and shortly after that her Dad, we found a quaint little restaurant to eat at called Lasse Lucidor. We enjoyed a different type of pasta with sauce--not like in America. Once again, absolutely delicious to the taste buds.

We then made our way back to the car and home to Rosersberg--but not before dropping off Ann-Louise at her home.

From our tasty, site seeing picture window to yours, have a great day!