Macking it in Madrid: military time

I went to sweden this weekend!! my lifelong dream that I've been talking about for years and years finally happened! I went and visited 5 of my old au pairs and it was so great. okay, let me give you the play-by-play:

I went friday, and Linda and her mom met me at the airport. We took a bus into Stockholm and it was so nice to catch up. Then we met Linda's cousin at the train station and found Anna. Linda went off with her cousin and Anna and I went and chatted in a coffee shop. It was definitely colder there than Madrid (where it was 70 degrees all weekend) but it wasn't too bad. Then Sabina, Sanna, Sanna's sister Sara, and Camilla all came and met us there! We were starving so we went near Camilla's place and got pizza. I got falafel pizza (jews represent) yummmm. Then we went "bar hopping without the alcohol" because we wanted to sit but couldn't find a place that wasn't too busy. 5 bars later, we found one and sat and just hung out, where we heard Sanna's long story about how she broke her pinky toe (don't ask...it's gross). Anna and I were staying with Camilla so we went back to her apartment, exhausted, and went through Camilla's photo album from when she was in Boston and just caught up.

Saturday we woke up and Sabina, Camilla, Anna, and I went to Fotografiska, a photography museum, which was UNREAL. Honestly, it was SO inspiring and I just want to be a famous black and white photographer. I am going to glue my camera to my side and just take pictures of everything. Go google these people: Anton Corbijn, Liu Bolin, Nick Brandt. And there was an exhibit about the LRA (the child soldiers in Africa), which was so ironic with all this Kony business going on. It was amazing, but so sad. These photographers are so freaking talented. Okay, enough ranting, I was just so inspired. Anyways, after that we walked around the Old City, which is so cute. The buildings are leaning and not up straight because Stockholm is built on a bunch of trash, which was cool. And we were walking around and ran into this sports bar that was totally Boston sports themed!! I went in a FREAKED OUT and the waiters and bar tender were like laughing at me. It made me miss home!

We had a Swedish lunch there and then walked past the government buildings and met up with Linda (Sanna was working). We went shopping and bought some fresh blueberries and raspberries and wine (yeeeee) and eventually went back home. We skyped with the fam and then had ice cream with the berries and some wine just to relax at home. So fun. Sanna and Sara came, and right before we went to dinner, Anna and the girls surprised me and gave me a plexiglass bracelet in the shape of Sweden to remember the weekend with. SO CUTE GIRLS. The nicest. So then we took a "bulle" (cab) to this Thai restaurant and it was so sick. All decked out like Thailand and sometimes the lights flickered and monsoon sounds played. Awesome. The pad thai was UNREAL guys. unreal. During dinner I chatted on the phone with Simon (Anna's boyfriend) where we established that I had an american accent and he had an australian accent, Andreas (Sabina's boyfriend), and Tobias (Sabina's brother who is my age and came and visited us in Boston yearrrrs ago). I convinced Tobias to come out with us and so after dinner we met up with him and his girlfriend Hanna at this club called Lobby. It was so funny because it was in the middle of a mall. Like in the lobby of the mall with a dj and bar. hilarious. But it was so so fun with the girls. Wasn't feeling so hot this morning. And now I'm home!

It was seriously a great weekend with lots of laughs and catching up. I felt like I was just hanging out with my friends. I'm so thankful that they all took time out of their busy schedules (and even flew/took the train to Stockholm) to see me! It was a great great weekend and hopefully it happens again soon!!