This is it: My FINAL Post!!! "The Mixed Bag"
So, I am sitting in my room packing up my stuff right now and have decided to take a break from racing through memories in my mind. I thought I may as well throw a final post on here since Cass and I are leaving Stockholm for good this weekend for Amsterdam. There really isnt any theme to this post other than some very cool pics from Stockholm and my favourite building: Stockholms Stadshuset (City Hall). Excuse me if some of these pics are already on my blog, but hey I really didnt want to go through them all to check. So just sit back, relax and enjoy my pics as I walk down memory lane in my last week here in Stockholm.

This is the Viking style roof in the parliament room in City Hall.....

A cool painting in City Hall.......the following are just some more cool pics from Stadshuset....

The Gold Room......

A beautiful day in downtown Stockholm just outside of the subway station Ostermalmstorg.....

This is my Swedish friends bed and breakfast. It was built in 1776 and Cecilia has turned it into a beautiful place to eat, sleep and even have beautiful weddings during the summer months. Thanks so much for all of your help and hospitality Cecilia!!!

Inside Central Station.....

View from Slussen........

The "Royal Dramatic Theatre" (translated of course).......

Lambo.......

The smallest island in Stockholm

The pole that centers downtown Stockholm. As you can see it lights up a cool blueish colour at night....

OK readers, I guess that it is it for now. Thanks so much for all of the comments and to all of my European friends/readers; I could never thank you enough for all of the memories. You guys have been amazing and have made this trip truly the single greatest thing that I have ever done in my life. Hopefully this blog has managed to capture half of the memories that we have shared over the past half a year.

Thanks again guys......I will see the rest of you in the mother land.

Hej då och tack så mycket!!!! Ha en trevlig resa!!!!!!!!!

HOPPAS VI SES IGEN!!!!!!!!!!!

Valborg
So, spring has arrived here in Stockholm!!! When it does, the Swedes celebrate every year at a festival they call Valborg. At this festival they sing songs, dance, have some good 'ol fashioned family fun around a fire. Nej, a HUGE bloody fire! Veit and I checked out the festivities held at an outdoor museum call Skansen in downtown Stockholm. Here was our view from the top of Skansen:

Some pics of the rather large fire that was lit by the Stockholm fire department. Remember kids, safety is no accident.....

I decided to dance and join the festivities!!

Some more views from Skansen......

Tallinn
So, after a nice couple of days (and down two digital cameras) we headed north to Estonia's capital, Tallinn. This city was incredible...easily one of Europe's best kept secrets that I have found (other than Stockholm). The city was clean, friendly and had one of the nicest Old Towns these eyes have ever seen. I HIGHLY recommend anyone to go and check out this city. Anyway, enough advertising......lets get onto some photos shall we?

Our hostel was right in the middle of Old Town, so from the bus station we took the tram into the city center and followed a nice Estonian dude into Old Town. He didnt speak any English by the way. This is the view that we walked into.....


The next day we did some touring of Old Town. It is very big and has literally hundreds of cool buildings to see. This is the old prison...

This is a nice Church in the middle of Old Town.....

Im not too sure what this is, but it looks like some kind of old defense wall or something....

This is one of my favourite old Cathedrals in Old Town. You can definitely spot the Soviet influence in this one.....

The Royal Palace building.........

Me in front of the Canadian Embassy.........

A view of Old Town from one of the many lookout points........

This is where we had lunch one day. It is translated as 'Grandmas Kitchen'. They ACTUALLY had Wild Boar on the menu......I was tempted but didnt want to spend a lot of money on something as exotic as.....well, Wild bloody Boar.......

This was cool......for whatever reason some kids were walking through Old Town singing and dancing in old fashioned clothing.....pretty funny

This is an old military tower/museum nowadays. It is called "Kiek in de Kok" or "Peek into the Kitchen". Get your minds out of the gutter people!!!!!!!!!

For those of you who didnt notice, those are cannonballs still stuck in the side of the building. OOOOOOO SCARY!!!!!

OUUUUUUUUCHHHHHH

CANNNNNOOOOONSS!!!!!!!

The rack!!!! Anybody for a good stretch????

The tower had some amazing views from the many windows around it. Enjoy..........

Me, Amelie and Juliana taking in the views!!!

Juliana and I standing next to a cool statue. NO idea who this guy is/was......

Whepf! I would of fallen in if not for this well placed sign!!!

Another view of Old Town....

A nice young Estonian girl who sold us baked nuts covered in lots of spices. SO GOOD......

Night shot......

There was a lot of cool architecture in the city and in Old Town.......as you can see..........

We had a nice picnic on the beach on our last day.......twas quite nice....

A nice angel statue.........

You handsome devil you............

View of the city from the beach.......

This was a monument set up by the German government paying respect to Russian soldiers that lost their lives. The Estonian government obviously wants to get rid of this area since relations with the Russians arent that great at the moment. There was actually a protest about this when I was there..........I think someone was even fatally wounded while protesting about this......

The view walking up to the war monument area.......

Me, taking in the sights......

This looked to be an old battle area. There were actually HUGE craters everywhere you looked with pathways that have been grownover with grass so soldiers could get in and around the area without getting shot. This was my first time being in an area like this, so I thought it was really really cool......

An art museum.......

The old prison again......

I could of used one of these signs in Riga!!!! BOLLUCKS!!!!