greetings from sweden

hej! (that is "hi" in swedish - pronounced "hey")...we made the drive from lille to stockholm in two days...the first day we drove all the way to køge, denmark...the next day we crossed the huge bridge into malmo, sweden and began the drive towards stockholm...we made a pit-stop in älmhult and saw the church where my great great grandfather was baptised and my great great great grandfather was supposedly buried (i say supposedly, we looked for his gravestone but we never found it...it was a pretty big cemetary)...luckíly the weather has been pretty nice but a bit chillier than normal they say....i guess i got a little spoiled with all the sun in spain...

no celebrity sitings so far...however, south san gabriel is playing tonight (a side project of one of my favorite bands, centro-matic, who is from my hometown - denton!!!)...crazy weird, but i'm not going to the show....i'm just toooo tired....

yesterday we went to the vasa museum...it's an entire museum dedicated to a ship built in the 1600's...it was huge and really extravagant....it sailed out into the harbor on it's maiden voyage a big gust of wind came and knocked it over...it sank to the bottom...it stayed there untill the 1960's when they hauled it out, perfectly intact and preserved it in a museum....pretty incredible....grace and i then went and saw star wars episode three....holy crap...i was prepared for the disappointment but it was fantastic....can't get over the special effects....

today we walked all over town...first we hit gamla stan (the old city, located on this little island)...we watched the changing of the guard at the royal palace, which was suprisingly really cool....they had a visiting army band from norway who did one of those crazy rifle tossing presentations...after lunch we headed to skansen...it's an "open-air museum"...it's a collection of historic buildings all moved onto the same spot and turned into a kind of amusement park (i use this term lightly)...the closest thing i can compare it to is silver dollar city - minus the rides...if you have no idea what i'm talking about, don't worry...but if you're ever in branson missouri, check it out....hehehe...

after that we headed back towards our hotel for some dinner (sushi, yum) and some good 'ol mtv...good lord, how i've missed mindless programing!!!!

ok...a huge impatient line is forming behind me for the one comupter in the hotel...i'm heading back to the room....i need more newlyweds....hej da! (goodbye)