Köttbullar, Dalahäst and Kungsträdgården...

Y'all are all probably what the heck my post title means. Well, all I have to say is that this Minnesota girl, born and raised on steak and potatoes, shoveling snow and enjoying windy walks to the ice rink, fit right in in Stockholm, Sweden. So, if that isn't any tip off to what my title means, I'll lay it out for you: it's Swedish for meatballs, wooden horse and the garden where the ice rink was located.

So the big thing about Stockholm is it is expensive, which means broke-studying-abroad college students can't afford to eat out every meal and end up eating at fast food joints and I'm not saying I'm against that, but I'm a big believer that if you are going to travel somewhere, and that somewhere being somewhere when who knows when you will be back, then you should probably spend the time, money and effort to eat typical Swedish plates. Alright, rant over.

Narrowest alley way

Trolls!

Royal Castle guards

Found a horse in the castle!

Future Princess

Nordic Sea

The Vasa

Swedish Meatballs

Ice skating 

Gingerbread Pig Cookies

Reindeer!!

Yet again, found my Dalahäst. 

But, besides wanting to eat really good food - which we did get to have good hot chocolate and swedish meatballs - did lots of museums! Went to the Royal Palace and did the Royal Armory Museum - which was really cool - makes me want to actually be a REAL princess and have my own gold carriage pulled by dapple grey ponies. We also went to the Vasa Museum, which houses a HUGE old viking ship, the Vasa, which sank in 1628 just off the shore of Stockholm. It was salvaged in 1961 and is the only preserved vessel from the 1600s. Then we went to the Skansen open air museum on Djurgårdsslåtten which was really cool, kind of kid-orientated, but lots of fun - we went to an old fashion bakery and got really really really good gingerbread cookies. Also went to the children's museum where I got to hang with a reindeer!!

Being abroad means that I am missing out on a lot of important things, and the big one being: HOCKEY (NHL due to the lockout, and college and high school because they don't stream over here and forums are blocked). So, if you know me at all, any opportunity to do anything hockey-related meant that it had to be done (same for anything horse-related). So ended up going to Kungsträdgården to go ice skating! It was awesome.