Bye Bye, Stockholm.
It's Thursday night about 9:30, and at 4:00am tomorrow we'll be hopping on the train to Arlanda airport and beginning our 24-hour odyssey of airplane rides and layovers. Stockholm, London, Chicago, Portland. With any luck we'll be arriving in Portland around 8:00pm or so on Friday night.
While I am excited to be returning home to our cats and everything else I hold dear, I am sad to be leaving Stockholm. This city, unlike any other, has touched us deeply with both her natural beauty and her wonderful, warm people. And the museums, shopping, and food are pretty good, too.
Last night we accepted our new Swedish friends' invitation to meet them for drinks. We took the train over to the trendy district of Sodermalm, called up Anders on his mobile phone, and met him outside one of the many popular bars in the area. Walking through this area we felt more like hip young urbanites than the married middle-aged suburbanites that we really are, although I'm sure we weren't fooling any of the hundreds of twenty-somethings out for their evening fun! Still, it was a great way to spend an evening in Stockholm and our new friends didn't seem to mind that they were keeping us out past our 10pm bedtime.
After I get home, I'll try to find some time to post some pictures from the last couple of days, but until then, just this one:
While I am excited to be returning home to our cats and everything else I hold dear, I am sad to be leaving Stockholm. This city, unlike any other, has touched us deeply with both her natural beauty and her wonderful, warm people. And the museums, shopping, and food are pretty good, too.
Last night we accepted our new Swedish friends' invitation to meet them for drinks. We took the train over to the trendy district of Sodermalm, called up Anders on his mobile phone, and met him outside one of the many popular bars in the area. Walking through this area we felt more like hip young urbanites than the married middle-aged suburbanites that we really are, although I'm sure we weren't fooling any of the hundreds of twenty-somethings out for their evening fun! Still, it was a great way to spend an evening in Stockholm and our new friends didn't seem to mind that they were keeping us out past our 10pm bedtime.
After I get home, I'll try to find some time to post some pictures from the last couple of days, but until then, just this one:
Hejdå Stockholm! Vi kommer att återvända igen någon dag!
Stockholm is a very beautiful place.
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