Day one: Saturday 23 June
We got up early and was at the airport by 6:30 am. We checked our luggage and met the Fun For Less group. There were 89 of us altogether.  Steve and Sheree Merkley were the guides.  The flight to JFK went well then after a short layover we flew out at 5:10 pm all night to Stockholm, Sweden arriving at 7:30 Sunday morning.

flying into Stockholm, Sweden

Day two: Sunday 24 June
Upon arrival in Stockholm we gathered our luggage and boarded the buses.  We were with the red bus. After leaving luggage at the hotel we started touring the city. Our first stop was the Stockholm City Hall, this is where they have a banquet and formal dance for Nobel Prize winners.

Golden Hall

Front steps

Blue Hall

In the Golden Hall decorative mosaics made of more than 18 million tiles cover the walls. This is the dance hall.

Our next stop was to the Vasa Museum. This is a ship that was the first to have two cannon decks, built in 1628.  When it sailed the gunports opened to fire a salute and took on water and sank. It was under water for 333 years then raised, they built a museum around it.

model of the Vasa

  

We went to Skansen an open air museum.  This is a lot like Nauvoo or This is the Place Monument. They have ancient homes, buldings and farm houses showing what life was like hundreds of years ago.  We ate lunch here and watched the Summer Festival dancing.

We stopped at the market and then fianlly went back to hotel we were getting sort of ringy by this time.  After a short nap we ate dinner at the hotel resaraunt and made it to bed finally.

eating and souvenirs