Stockholm

September 1, 2009, Tuesday
Stockholm

We are exhausted!! We walked miles and miles today and now we just want to collapse!! All started well with our trip into town via the subway. We were able to get right on to the island where we were to start our self guided walking tour. Well, it deteriorated from there!! I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where we were and how to get to the place to start the tour. We walked and walked and asked and asked and finally we found a familiar street name and the King’s Palace and I figured we were finally on the right track. HA!! Not for long! Almost immediately we were lost again and all this time I am deadly serious about wanting to do this walking tour and Don is just along for the ride and is wandering off here and there and being no help at all. I was SO discouraged and finally I just said to hell with it and went wandering too. We saw a whole lot of stuff but nothing we could identify and we definitely did not see a rune that I was hoping to see or the smallest statue in Stockholm or any of the other things on the tour but we had a lovely time and we got places most people never get!!

It was quite cold this morning so we wore long sleeved shirts and sweaters and our windbreakers. By noon we were peeling off layers and everything landed tied around our waists!! Lunch was an ice cream cone—our usual!!

I found a couple of things that I considered buying but the prices were SO high I had second thought and decided that I didn’t need anything!! I’m appalled by the prices of things over here. I would really like to know what their annual wages are because it is WAY more expensive to live here than to live in the US.

I haven’t had a hairdryer for the last three days and I’m not happy about this situation. I was going to break down and buy one today but tomorrow we go to Finland and I’m sure there will be one at the Radisson, our hotel in Finland. I also check today and found that there will definitely be hair dryers on the ship, so I guess I can look funny here and there, as long as it is not a continuous thing!! I have cowlicks on top of my cowlicks and my hair goes every which way!! Definitely not attractive!!