Emily and Stacy's Visit

Hej (from Emily and her new clown friends)!

Now that I have finally (somewhat) recovered from Emily and Stacy's visit with daily naps, I can blog about it!

Thursday

Emily and Stacy arrived, and were greeted with kanelbulle and kardemum rolls for breakfast. They visited the Vasa Museum, then I met them at Strandbryggan for lunch. Strandbryggan has amazing avocado turkey sandwiches, and shrimp salad, yum!

After work, we had Embassy friends over for a welcome party (note the awesome intern pic). I introduced the girls to some traditional Swedish club music, and the greyhounds were flowing! After that, we continued out to a great outside bar/club called F12. When this bar closed at 3, we ventured to a late late night bar closer to home called Spy Bar. Needless to say, our Friday started a little later than expected.

Friday

On Friday, we explored Gamla Stan. We had a leisurely lunch at a pub by the water, with some much needed fish and chips. We bought souvenirs, shopped around, and then headed to happy hour at the embassy.

Friday night, Amanda and Cecilia joined us at a great french restaurant in Gamla Stan called Le Rouge. It had a great atmosphere, and we had our own dinner/ party room. The night followed at a bar in Sodermalm called 54. We made it an early night for our venture Saturday morning.

Saturday

On Saturday morning, we took a boat ferry to the Archipelago. We went to the island of Vaxholm, known as the capital of the Archipelago. We shopped around, made some purchases in a really cute Marimekko store, and then ate lunch on the water.

Before dinner, we hosted a margarita party with homemade guacamole and queso, delic!! We had to mask the terrible tasting margs with tequila, but needless to say everyone had a great time.

I took them to my favorite thai place for dinner in Sodermalm called Koh Phangan. Even after 9pm, there was more than a one hour wait for a table. So, we did what any normal person would do... We ordered a thai bucket that we could share, and drink out of with straws! It consisted of thai whiskey, Japanese energy drinks, and coca-cola.... yum (well, not really).

After dinner we met Frances at Sturecompagniet, a popular club in Stureplan. Stacy quickly made friends, and the champagne starting flowing. Emily dropped her full beer on her toe, and that seems to be a pretty good recap of the evening. Of course, we finished the night off at Spy bar again... Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Sunday

Sunday, we had brunch at Ruby Grill, and I finally got some eggs Benedict over here... amazing. Stacy and Em found some last minute gifts.

For our last dinner, we ate dinner at East, and toasted to our last night in Stockholm. It is a great sushi/ asian fusion restaurant that is very popular with the locals. It was a great way to end an amazing trip.

We were all sad moose (think sad panda, with a new Swedish wilderness twist) when they headed home EARLY Monday morning.

Thanks for coming to visit me... it was EPIC. Croatia 2011... Who's in?

Ciao!

K Fitz