Did you know Stockholm, Sweden is situated on 14 islands? I only found that out this weekend when Chizzy and I took advantage of a Whitmonday weekend to head up to the Nordic city. Actually, that whole eastern coast region is one of the larges archipelagos in the world with some 25,000 islands. It is an absolutely beautiful city and everything about it was fantastic from a US tourist perspective. The prices there are very comparable to prices in the US and is considered a very safe city. English is far and away the most predominate language spoken after Swedish and everybody we spoke with sounded like they could have been from the Midwest. Chizzy thinks it is because they don’t overdub the American television shows that seem to be playing non-stop on the TV. They just subtitle them with Swedish. We’ve pretty much been off TV since we got here since we can’t understand it so it was refreshing to catch a CSI: Miami in our hotel at night. It was only dark from about 11 at night to around 3:30 in the morning while we were there. I’ve never been that far north, so it was a cool experience for me. Chizzy has been to Alaska and Finland before so it was something she has seen before. We were very lucky to have two crystal clear days with plenty of sun and we actually came back pretty red.
It seemed like every corner we turned and bridge we crossed in Stockholm had a photo worthy sight and we took tons of pictures. However, bad luck finally hit us on the last couple hours of our trip while in the very cool Vasa Museum. The digital camera died. The zoom lens just got stuck in the out position and nothing would display on the LCD screen. If our new camera can’t extract all the photos from the Compact Flash card that was in the old camera when it broke, we will be super-bummed.
So, I’m just going to cut this post short and hopefully we can do a more detailed post with pictures very soon.
Seriously - take the CF card to a web cafe and have them pull the pictures off. The political commentary is killing me.
R. made a Boba Fett costume for Steve and I've got batteries in my trusty dual-light saber from GA days. Nick got confused and dressed up as Data, but it's OK. All ready for Star Wars tomorrow.
Bryan, May 20, 2005 03:15 PM:I went out and bought a multi-card reader and a new camera today. I'll have the pics up pretty soon.
If you want to know, I bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ1. I pulled my typical electronic device shopping move and just bought something at the first place I stopped without comparing prices or reading reviews. I think I made out OK on the camera. The reviews (I am reading them after the fact) are fair for this fella, but I'm sure I'll love it as long as it doesn't break in a year. The important things for me were the 6x optical zoom, picture stabilization, and 4 Mega-pixels. All upgrades from the broken Coolpix 3100.
Crunk Juice, May 20, 2005 08:46 PM:I definitely went Mace Windu - just, "Dammnnn, those Siths are evil!"
Klisch, don't say "super-bummed" again.