October 19-22: Stockholm to Hamburg

The rest of the night on Friday the 19th was really fun. Anton and I met Tyson's friend Robin and the two of them bought us drinks and we had a really fun time hanging out at the bar and talking. Then we went to a couple of other bars, including a dance bar, where Anton and I danced until I felt sick! It was really fun. While waiting for the subway on the way home, we saw a very drunk guy fall onto the train tracks, but luckily his friends saw and helped him out right away, which is good, because the train wasn't far away! It was kind of scary, but everything turned out fine.

The next day, the 20th, we slept in late, then ate some potatoes for breakfast and headed out into Stockholm for a while. We walked all over and took pictures. We took a ferry ride over to an island that had a museum called the Vasa Muset (Vasa Museum) which is a museum dedicated to this ship that was recovered from the Baltic Sea that had been built in the early 1600's as a war ship that actually ended up sinking in the harbor on it's maiden voyage. It wasn't recovered until the 1960's, and lots of really cool artifacts and skeletons were found with it. The outside of the ship is decorated with figurines of lion's heads, mermaids, gods and angels and the ship is SO huge and overwhelming. It stands in the middle of the museum and is probably three stories tall! Really cool.

After that, we headed back to the apartment and hung out with Tyson, then tried to go out and see a movie, but it was a Kung-Fu movie with Swedish subtitles, so it didn't really work... so we walked around for a while, then eventually headed back home. We had a good time just walking around and laughing at all the drunks.

On Sunday the 21st, we headed over to the train station at around 10am and luckily made it in time to catch an 11:20am train that (after making for transfers) would eventually take us to Hamburg by 10:16pm. The train ride was very long, but the view from the windows was beautiful, and I was so caught up in reading Dracula that I didn't really notice the time. Zoe came and met us at the train station when we arrived and we took a cab back to her place. Then, we met her boyfriend Hans and ate some food and talked for a while. Their apartment is really nice, and it was great to sleep on a bed again!

Today we ate some toast and potatoes for breakfast and are going to go on a long walk along the water, then meet up with Zoe when she gets off school at 4pm. The weather here is very pretty and sunny, but also freezing. I can't wait to eventually post pictures!