July 22-23, Thursday-Friday

July 22, Thursday

Katey had to give her group presentation on Thursday so one of her classmate’s girlfriend and I decided to make dinner for a handful of people while they spent the afternoon in their presentations. Marnie (the girlfriend) and I had a good time making a beer can chicken, corn on the cob, and salad for the group of hard working architecture students.

Katey and her classmates were very thankful and we all had a leisurely dinner in one of the dorm kitchens (they have a long table that could probably accommodate 10).

After dinner we went out for drinks. Katey and I had had a casual drink here and there on the trip but hadn’t “gone out” since I had been in Stockholm. This was a lot of fun.

Our first stop was an outdoor “beer hall” that sits at the top of a ledge on Södermalm (the coolest neighborhood in Stockholm). We had such a good time chatting that we forgot to take pictures, so here are some good ones from Google.

We then made one more stop at a bar that had been written up in our guide book as a great place to sit around with local beer drinkers and toss a few back. There weren’t many people there but you could tell the place had potential.

July 23, Friday (Katey is taking over from here on out)

The class schedule on Friday involved a full day tour of Stockholm’s notable modern architecture accomplishments. But after a long week of "architecture" for Greg, we decided to take the day off!! We started the morning late by going on a walk around the area by the dorms. We happened upon a barn that had bunnies (and pigs, horses and goats)!!!!

 

and of course, we fika-ed for breakfast

We had been wanting to do a tour of parliament, so we went to Gamla Stan next to take the tour. It's a free tour, and it was really interesting. We learned about the different branches of their government and how they worked together. I could go into more, but we'll keep this on the visual side:

We then had our next korv of the trip to round out the day!!!