Stockholm- Let the Games Begin!

Blake and I were really excited to have our first visitors in Stockholm, even though we had no idea what we were going to do with them. We live a bit outside of the city (finding a place in Stockholm is insanely hard) and besides our visit last January, we had barely seen the city ourselves. But it was fun, and Jason and Kathleen were both ok to be ushered around the city by 2 people who clearly didn’t know where they were going.

The plan was as follows:

Saturday, September 20^th: Jason and Kathleen arrive in Stockholm and see the city

Sunday, September 21^st: Hang out in Stockholm

Monday, September 22^nd: More Stockholm, then take overnight ferry to Riga, Latvia

Tuesday, September 23^rd: Arrive in Riga, sight-see and stay the night in Riga

Wednesday, September 24^th: Fly from Riga to Munich, Germany and go to Oktoberfest

Thursday, September 25^th: Go see Neuschwanstein Castle (a couple hours from Munich) and more Oktoberfest

Friday, September 26^th: More Oktoberfest and sight-see in Munich. Then take a train in the evening from Munich to Frankfurt (because we couldn’t find a hotel in Munich for the weekend and because we wanted to see more of Europe)

Saturday, September 27^th: Hang out in Frankfurt

Sunday, September 28^th: Fly back to our respective homes from Frankfurt (sorry, no post)

There were a lot of pics between the 4 of us, and I tried only picking the best ones, so if you want to view the pictures, you can find them here:

Stockholm

Riga

Munich

Frankfurt

They both arrived separately on Saturday morning. Jason, who lives in Seattle, was coming from Hamburg, Germany where he had had a business meeting. He took a long ass over-night train from Hamburg to Copenhagen to Stockholm and called me at 6:30 in the morning to meet him at the subway stop. Kathleen flew in from Chicago at 7:45 and Blake was nice enough to meet her at the airport so she wouldn’t get lost getting back to our apartment.

We were all pretty tired Saturday morning, but we were excited to get going and see Stockholm. I won’t bore you with the details, but basically we just walked around Gamla Stan, saw a cool ship museum and saw what life would have been like if we were made out of wood:

We had a great time just wandering around the city, looking at all the ivory covered buildings:

(I might as well fess up now that I said ivory instead of ivy and never heard the end of it!) We were all pretty tired and knew we had a long week ahead of us, so we went home and watched Beerfest to mentally prepare for Oktoberfest.