Heather and I go to Helsinki and have Swedish Thanksgiving

For the last week and a half or so I had visiting me here in Stockholm. She came all the way from Seattle. We had lots of fun. We went ice skating in Kungstragården, then met up with Heydar for bowling in Friedhemsplan and had food and drinks at Garlic and Shots, a place I'd been meaning to check out for months (and now can say I highly recommend).

Then we took a weekend trip to Helsinki. That was also pretty awesome. The Viking Line ferries are quite nice, even better than the boat that I took to Poland. It was a 16 hour trip each way but there was plenty of entertainment available on the ship, including some quite decent restaurants. We only spent a day in Helsinki itself, but had a good time just wandering around looking at various sites.

As usual, if you click on any of these photos you can see several more on Flickr. The following week we did more chilling in Stockholm. I had to do some not terribly exciting things like go to class, do homework, and work. Heather decided we should have Thanksgiving dinner though, and tracked down a number of Thanskgiving-ish foods. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, and apple pie, not to mention some delicious Bordeaux. Stuffing, cranberries, and pumpkin pie could not be located, but it was an excellent feast nonetheless.

Heather headed back home on Saturday and I've returned to my attempts at working and studying. Who wants to visit me next?!

P.S. I've got a few short video clips I've taken on my camera I've been kind of wanting to post somewhere. Anyone have recommendations for good video sharing sites to upload to? I want something like Flickr for video, but dunno if there's anything closer to that than Youtube.