Sweden is over and I loved it. It has become one of my favorite
countries so far. It seems ridiculous that we just finished our 8th
country out of 10.
The third day which was August 3rd was probably my favorite day and one
of my top experiences. We started the morning with a tour of old town
and the royal palace. We had the most feisty old lady as our guide and
we loved her. She would tell other people to be quiet when they were
standing by our group and she did not give a crap about asking people to
move. Our guides usually have an umbrella or something to hold up so we
can see them, well she had a sequined stick and it was great. The royal
palace was OK. At this point in the trip palaces and churches are all
looking the same and getting old to us. It also didn't help that it was
about 8 million degrees in the palace. After we signed off from the tour
and saw the changing of the guards. Becca, JoEllen and I found some cool
shops and walked around the little streets in old town. It was a really
cool part of Stockholm. At around 1:30 we got on the streets for the
Stockholm Pride parade. What an experience that was. It was really fun
and awesome to see one of the biggest pride parades. The parade was
huge, we stood for almost 2 hours and it still wasn't over. We found
lunch afterwards and I had a really good sandwich. We kept walking and
went back down the main shopping strip. It was even more packed because
of the parade. On the way back to the bus stop, we came by a hookah bar
that we had passed by before. Becca and I decided to stop and get some
apple hookah. So that was another cool experience in Sweden. After that
day we fell asleep really fast because we were so exhausted.
Our last day we slept in to about 10. Then the 3 of us again took a bus
to central station and then the train to a small college town called
Uppsala. It was similar to old town. It was small and quaint. We walked
a lot and walked through this huge cemetery. We also visited one of the
older churches before lunch. We spent about 4 hours in Uppsala wandering
around before getting the train back. Today it is August 4th and we are
still in port and not leaving for Finland until 5:30pm.
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