so whats the deal with rain?

hej all

so we are in stockholm right now, on the 10th day of our adventure, and coincidentally it is also the 10th day on which we have experienced RAIN! booo! i understand the rain in dublin, but come on. yesterday it was pouring when we woke up and it poured all day without letting up once, until we went to bed at night. on the plus side we watched old school before bed. :)

when we woke up this morning it was sunny and bright and there was not a cloud in the sky. so, we got overzealous and went outside in nothing but shorts and t-shirts and bright hopes. an hour and a half later it was raining and we were pretty cold. oops!

besides all of the rain, stockholm is a beautiful city. i know we keep on saying that about the places we are going without photographic evidence, but you will just have to trust us until we have the means to upload. stockholm is a fantastic archipalego of like 2000 islands, although there are maybe 5 or 6 that comprise downtown. we explored the old medieval city today, with narrow cobblestone streets - one of the streets is only 90 cm wide! crazy!

still, everywhere you go you have to cross a bridge, which can be inconveninent when you are trying to go in a straight line across the water but you have to walk 2km around to the nearest bridges. i think we stopped on every bridge to take pictures though, its just so cool. canada has nothing like this that i know of.

we went to vasamuseet today, which is the best museum i have been to in some time. there was a poorly engineered boat built in stockholm in 1628 and it sank less than 1.5 km into its maiden voyage... yeah. i know. so its kind of funny that this huge museum focuses on such a catastrophic failure. but anyways, the thing is wooden, 69m long and so incredible. it was salvaged in 1967. they pulled it out, emptied the mud out, and actually floated the thing into dry docks. now a museum is built around it, with really cool exhibits. AND, there are 2 other boats that you can go on and explore. lisa and i went on one from 1914 and i think we were the only people on it. it was wild! we went down into the engine room and crawled around all the pipes and gears and valves. so cool!

tomorrow we really hope that it is nice out, although by now we will assume at least some rain. we are going to go to an architectural museum and then we are going to explore the vast parklands near to downtown stockholm. should be fun.

OH YEAH!
i almost forgot!
on monday night, right after we got to our cozy and nice BOAT HOSTEL we went to the GLOBEN theatre (google it!) and saw the arctic monkeys play in a pretty small venue with the coolest swedish people we have ever seen! woo! so that was fun. lisa danced! and i danced!

i know that this one is getting long so sorry. its just exciting stuff.

lisa: "write that we have learned two words: ham and cheese". yes, its true. skinske and ost. lol.

okay i'll stop now. lisa is bugging me to stop. she thinks that people don't care about what i have to type. j/k, lol.

bye bye!
simon