Stockholm,Sweden

In February Ron and I went to Stockholm for a weekend.It was alot of fun and up until now we were unable to get the pictures off the internal memory because we packed our usb cable in the boxes before we left America.Anyways - here are the pictures !!

To get to Stockholm we needed to take a bus , a plane and a train.Here we are at the local airport ....





Here we are at the train/subway terminal ...







This was a crazy escalator - it was so long and narrow and steep - I thought we were going to fall off and die!!



We stayed in this cute little hotel.Our room was basically one big room - then the bathrooms were in the hallway and there was a community kitchen.Every morning they filled the fridge with juice and sandwiches and yogurt .It was really cool.






One of Ron's co workers , Tony , has a girlfriend who lives in Stockholm.Tony came with us to Stockholm and his girlfriend showed us all around town.It was really nice to be with someone that lived in the area and knew their way around.And we all had fun walking around and hanging out together.




We took ALOT of pictures .... this is what Stockholm looks like .
























In Stockholm they had random statues everywhere .






Nobel Prize building ...



Really strange advertisement ...



Fancy Pizza Hut ..



Also on our trip we visited a museum where they had this huge ship ....It was amazing.
Vasa
The giant 64 gun ship Vasa was built on the orders of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 1600's. Unfortunately, it wasn't built very well, as it collapsed and sank a few hundred meters into its maiden voyage out of Stockholm's harbor. Over three hundred years later, researchers located the wreck and pulled the ship to the surface. The majority of the ship's structure was intact and it now stands in restored glory inside Stockholm's most interesting museum. The Vasa is the best-preserved 17th century ship in the world.

We took pictures but they didnt come out that great .



We had a really great trip and Im so excited to finally be able to share the pictures!!

Alright - thats all.

We got a car !!!

Ron has been thinking about buying a car for a while now and its a big decision so he did alot of researching to figure out which car would be best for us. We had it narrowed down to a few models we liked and we decided to go with a Peugeot 207.Its a great car and we are sooo excited about it ! Ron picked it up from the dealership yesterday - we are so happy . Here are the pictures.

Holland . Netherlands . Amsterdam .

So , last month Ron traveled to Holland to attend a computer security conference. It was a great trip for him and he took pictures while he was there and I wanted to share them with you. Enjoy!

Amsterdam has an interesting set up - it has canals running through the city .Here are some pictures so you can get a better idea of what it looks like .




What is also interesting is that a long time ago the buildings were taxed based on how wide they were so the buildings are very tall and skinny .



The buildings are actually so skinny that in order to get your furniture into the building you need to anchor it in using a hook/pulley installed on the roof and bring the furniture in through the window !






I guess in Amsterdam people love riding bicycles.



Ron said the road situation was pretty confusing. Its not exactly clear which area is designated for walking / driving / bicycles / trains ... and it seems from the pictures that people just do whatever they want.






Ron ordered a hamburger and this is how it came...haha. He did say that all the food he ate there was really good.




Oh and you are probably wondering about tulips ... Ron said there were lots of small tulip shops .



He also saw these - these are for people to pee in !! Men I would assume ... haha.Strange.Who would want to use one of these ... ick.






Here is a cool building Ron saw .




Ron also did some shoe shopping on his trip .Karlskrona only has two shoe shops , and neither of them carry a very good selection . If I would have known there was going to be shoe shopping on this trip maybe I would've gone!! haha.




Here are some more pictures around town.








Here are pictures of Ron's hotel and hotel room .






View out the window ..




Okay this is funny. Its a basketball hoop TV showing a TV with a guy playing pool ... I know - it doesn't make any sense. And the guy in the picture is Ron's co worker.



Ron had a great time in Holland - I hope you like the pictures!