King's College in Cambridge
This weekend we Maggie, Abbey, and myself decided a trip to Stockholm was in order, so we hopped on a plane and flew to the most northern city we've ever visited. I expected a lot for this trip because Scotland was such an incredible trip, and I have to say that I was not disappointed in the slightest. I prepared for this trip by buying as many warm clothes as I could get my hands on. It seemed that everything was well prepared and ready to go for what I imagined was going to be the coldest weekend of my life. What I didn't realize, and I hate to get sappy, was that it was one of the warmest, best weekends with friends I've had in a long time.
The typical scenery for our Swedish weekend
We arrived on Friday and walked around the city to find our hostel, the local shops, and any attractions we could see after 6:00 pm on a Friday. Our first order of business was finding somewhere to get some food after what was an entire day of travel. After dinner we continued walking around Stockholm and stumbled upon a nice snow-covered park. Not only did we figuratively stumble upon this park, but Abbey literally stumbled and may have accidentally fallen on a half pipe. Needless to say, Maggie and I found that incredibly humorous and managed to bring it up at least once each day for the rest of the weekend.
The next day we got up and walked to what we called the "Museum Island" which surprise surprise contained a majority of the museums in Stockholm. We went to one called Skansen that showed old Swedish homes and relics as well as Scandinavian animals. The only bad part about this was that it was outdoors, and I was wearing the wrong shoes. After about an hour of walking in the snow, my socks were soaked all the way through, and after four hours I couldn't feel my feet anymore. At one point in the outdoor museum I would stop walking and a shooting pain would go through my left calf. I truly thought that my toes might not make it through the end of the day, but I would gladly give some toes for the memories of that day with Maggie and Abbey! After the outdoor museum, we went to the Vasa Museum which held a ship built in the 1600's that sank and was then pulled from the bottom of the sea in 1959. At first, we thought this ship had been a great warship that sank in battle and was rediscovered by the Swedish, but we soon learned that it had been built in a rush and only made it 1500 meters out of port before capsizing. That's some mighty fine Swedish ingenuity!
The Vasa
Sunday we got up early and went to the largest spherical building in the world and rode up the side of it. Sky View Stockholm is a huge tourist attraction, and it doubles as a concert arena. The Swedish are very proud of it and rightly so. It was amazing. We got to the top and could see all of Stockholm.
Sky View Stockholm
Only a few minor freak outs by Mom (Abbey) later we made it back to Stansted Airport in London and found our way sleepily back to our flats. It was an incredible weekend, and the only thing I would change about it would be to have more time there!
Chillin in Sweden (get it?)
In other news, we started our last week of statistics today! It's a happy moment indeed because after Thursday the GLS fam has its spring break! We are all traveling to different places around the continent, and some of us are even venturing to other continents. I received a letter from my favorite Wake Forest girl today, and now I am on the lookout for a castle I can buy for us to live in when we come back to London to live forever!
I hope everyone is having a great time back at home! Stay tuned for future adventures!
Troy
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