Getting to Stockhom: Priceless

So, a couple weeks ago Kelly, Emilie and I had started planning to go somewhere this past weekend. We looked and looked for tickets to somewhere for cheap. We couldn't find much so on this last Wednesday we decided to just buy tickets to Stockholm, Sweden. Well it turns out that when you want to buy tickets for a Friday you actually have to put that in. Seems pretty easy to do, but Emilie and I managed to mess it up. We found this out when we got to the airport on Friday night after rushing there right after studio and not eating anything. We were a bit confused when we got there and they told us that our tickets were for the Wednesday before. We had no idea what to do, so we started scrambling because we still had return tickets for Sunday and a hotel reservation. We went through many ideas from renting a manual transmission car to catching a bus in the morning. We were desperate and would've had done anything. We ended canceling the hotel reservations and almost the return ticket when we caught a break and a really nice Swedish women working for the airline. She managed to change our itinerary from Wednesday to Friday for only 30 dollars more per person. We took it immediately and ran through check-in. We then needed to rebook a hotel, so I called back the company we booked through and convinced them that I actually didn't want to cancel the reservation in the first place. The agent had to put me on hold, while my phone was dying due to lack of battery power. I got the confirmed re booking as my phone died, what a streak of luck. Needless to stay we were all very happy and proceeded to laugh a lot, hug a lot and enjoy ourselves a ton.
Now, for Stockholm itself. One word is all that is needed to describe it Amazing. It is built on seven islands, with a lot of hills and water. It is absolutely beautiful and a nice little change compared to the rather flatness of Copenhagen. Though, I didn't notice that unlike the laid back easy going ways of the Danes, the Swedes seemed to always be in a hurry. Oh well, to each his own I guess. We had another little adventure when we got to Stockholm as well, we didn't know how to get from the airport to our hotel, so we took a cab. This cab ended costing 640 Swedish Kroner which is about 100 dollars. Quite the expensive cab, but oh well we made it to the hotel where we found out that we booked a quick sleep room which means that we share a shower with other rooms, kind of like a dorm. We also found out that two twin beds means they are bunked. It wasn't so bad with just the three of us the first night, but the second night after meeting up with some other friends that were staying with us it got a little crowded.
As for the sites of Stockholm on Saturday we took a tour of City Hall, rode a ferry over to another island and went through a ship museum which displayed a ship from the 1600's. It was fully intact and amazing to look at. On Sunday we spent the whole day at the Royal Palace. We saw the changing of the guards, the royal apartments, the armory, the oldest museum in Europe and a museum that gave us a peak at the foundation of the palace that dates back to 1288. Needless to say we learned a lot about Sweden's history which surprisingly didn't focus as much on wars with Denmark. All in all it was a fun weekend and now you know why getting to Stockholm was priceless. Oh and here are some pictures from the weekend and a short video from the changing of the guards.