Swedish Fish are, in fact, the best.

After a lovely Christmas in Finland with Mia’s absolutely wonderful family, we headed off to start our gradual conquering of Europe. On Monday, December 27^th, we set off on a cruise from Helsinki, Finland to Stockholm, Sweden. This was a very neat way for us to travel!

We spent the night at the best buffet ever, eating tons of Finnish food, and not so Finnish food (we happened to share a plate of nachos, just because we could!) After nearly two hours of lush eating, we decided to go take a little nap in our cabin.

Around midnight, we ventured upstairs and watched the dance show, which was pretty interesting, but mostly fun! Made some friends, both of which thought I was Swedish, don’t know how that happened.

Then we made our way up to the night club and danced a bit. 

Oh Yeahhhh I won too!

I think we took a wrong turn.

But we were so exhausted that we decided to make our way back to our cabin and get some sleep before we got into Stockholm in the morning.

I was too excited to be cold!

Once in Stockholm (it was freezing!) 

We made our way to the train station so we could figure out our train reservations.

OHHHHH! A story I forgot to mention. Before Mia and I got onto the ship in Helsinki, we went to the train station so we could pick up and pay for all of our train reservations, but the Finnish train system decided that it wanted a day off and didn’t work, and also decided that it wanted to lose ALL of our reservations. After a mild freak out, we made our way to the ship and decided that we would deal with it at the train station in Stockholm.

After we paid for the majority of our train tickets, we started our personal walking tour of Stockholm. Mia, being the amazing European girl that she is, knows fluent Swedish and was able to translate everything!  We went to the Old Town of Stockholm, called Gamla Stan. It was really cool because all of the streets contained cool little shops and cafes.

Mia and I stopped in this little cavern for some lunch. It was really cool because the cavern was practically built underground.

Since we had been walking around all day and taking pictures of everything, and well….freezing, we decided that we should go be the students we are and venture to the Vasa Museum. The Vasa museum houses a Swedish shipwreck that is about 333 years old. The ship was hoisted up from the bottom of the sea, with 95% of it still intact.

After a long day of touring, Mia and I were happy to sit down on the train. Off to Copenhagen, Denmark and Country #2!