Stockholm is where we spent most of our time, though I'm not sure of everything we saw. We mostly toured around in different areas, wandered and rode bikes along the canals and streets. This below though is one of my favorite pictures of Sweden. It was only about a fifteen minute walk to this view from where we were staying. We were at Stockholm's City Hall, which also had some interesting statues, buildings and architecture.
We ate dinner on a "floating restaurant" tied to the side of the canal. It was great as the sun was setting to be out on the water. We saw some hot air balloons go by while we had dinner.
The next day we went to the old part of town and walked through small streets and looked into several unique little stores attempting to do some souvenir shopping.
We saw a great set of guards who we thought were on their way to the palace...
Turns out they were just going to the bus:
The palace was just across the street:
Through the archway on the side of the palace led to the street of all sorts of shopping, with lions to indicate you were on the road.
The next day we went to a couple of museums featuring Swedish history, goods, artifacts, and other trinkets. Eventually we found this indoor market as well.
Later that evening we went to the Icebar! It was a room, bar, walls, everything made entirely of ice! You had to make reservations for a particular time and that got you 45 minutes in the bar. You had to wear parkas to go in and they served the drinks in ice as well. It was very cool. No pun intended. Ok maybe intended a little bit.
And finally, no trip to Sweden would be complete without an order of Swedish meatballs and lingon berries. I split meal with my coworker as we weren't very hungry.
Thus ended our great Swedish journey for the weekend.
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