July 15th. Stockholm to Osterhammers Estate. Happy Anniversary to my lovely wife! We got married 22 years ago today. We are spending it with my family on a 450 year old farm estate in central Sweden!!?!! We had to get going early this morning to catch a train to the town of Arboga . We then had to wait for another train to take us to the town of Orebro. We arrived in Orebro about 11:15 and then spent the next hour and a half trying to pick up our rental c...

July 14th. Stockholm We all got going earlier than any other day as we had a lot planned today. Everyone but my parents headed over the Vasa ship museum. The Vasa ship was the greatest, most elaborate, ship of its time (Late 1620s). It was commissioned by king Gustavus Adolphus (Gusties will shine tonight, Gusties will shine...) to be a testament to the power of Sweden. It took 2 years to build and was as much a work of art as it was a warship. On its m...

July 13th. Stockholm I cut off yesterday's blog so if you want to read about our adventures at the ABBA museum and Marie's apartment go back to yesterday's blog. This morning Luke and I went on a quest for more soccer jerseys. We spent about 2 hours running around to various stores to find some cool ones. We were successful. Luke was content. We then met up with the rest of the gang on the island of Sodermalm, across from Gamla Stan. We were meeting Mar...

July 12th Stockholm, or The Case Of The Missing Suitcase The place we are staying in Stockholm is possibly the nicest place we have stayed when traveling. It is what I would picture a Swedish cottage would look like. The house has wood floors, the old Swedish style fireplaces, and it fits all of us comfortably. Unfortunately, I could not enjoy it because I could not change into any clean clothes. When I slept I wore a pair of Luke's boxers (quite surprised t...

July 11th. Visby, Stockholm It was sad to leave Visby and Gotland today. We all would have liked to spend a couple more days traveling around the rest of island. Hopefully we will be back some day... Luke and I started the day with a short, windy, and wet run along the Baltic north of the city center. The Baltic was dark, dreary, and windswept this morning (which is what I think of when I think of the Baltic). I though it looked cool. We left our lug...