Stockholm - More Junibacken

Long random walkways that look like the set for a Bourne car chase

Pippi's spotted horse! Great views of the city.

"We going to outer Pace"

In front of the Nordic Museum

Just off the ferry back on our end of the city - we just liked this statue.

Stockholm - How We Ate!

For the most part, we cooked and ate breakfast and dinner in our apartment.

We ate a number of lunches in cafeterias at museums and theme park type places (Skansen, Junibacken, Engineering Museum).  The offerings were all very like those at the cafeteria at Ikea - meatballs, pasta, chicken tenders, lingonberry jam and so forth, but a little nicer than Ikea (and Ikea is pretty good).  This below is the lovely cafeteria at the Museum of Engineering.  Mommy and Papa had moose meatballs and mashed potatos with lingonberry jam while the kids ate pancakes with whipped cream and... you guessed it, lingonberry jam!  It was pretty good!

Homemade sandwiches and Swedish craft-brewed beer at the apartment after the kids went to bed.  So perfect.

This is the subterranean deli, The Hairy Pig, on Gamla Stan. YUM!

We had sausage sandwiches, mini personal lasagne, olives, charcuterie, great bread, and weird, giant capers (icky!)

Yum.

Stockholm - Junibacken!

Junibacken day! This is probably the most talked-about day of our trip. Even Sawyer recounts specific details about it. 

Junibacken is a sort of story-book museum/indoor amusement park built around the children's literature of Sweden. Mostly Astrid Lundgren, who wrote Pippi Longstocking. 

Took the ferry again, and did this walk that is sort of museum mile on Djurgarden. Posed with a giant anchor and a cool red boat.

First there was this whole play area with little rooms and things to climb on based on children's stories.

The real highlight was the train ride - it's a little ski lift-type contraption that drove us past dioramas of famous scenes from Swedish kids' books, but then it took off and flew us over little towns and through mouseholes (if the kids talk about seeing a giant rat, that's what they're talking about) to see different vignettes. It was pretty impressive.

Then there's Pippi's house, which was a big hit. Then another lunch of meatballs and mashed potatoes and lingonberries, which never gets old!

Stockholm 3

We might start getting out of order now, but I'm not going to worry too much about it. I think this was the day we went to the Vasa Museum in the morning. Again we took the ferry to Djurgarden, and walked around Vasamuseet, which is where they display a giant sunken ship that was unearthed last century (something to do with the perfect salt content of Sweden's brackish waters preserves the centuries-old wood). It's pretty cool. More on that later.

After that, we walked over a little bridge to Ostermalm (a fancy, residential island) and along the water back toward the center, trying to find a place for lunch. It was a beautiful day and there's lots of pretty boats. 

After lunch we wandered around the fancy shopping area and back down toward home. Sadie started to get a little cranky so we stopped for our afternoon bun on a little area beneath a bridge.

The bun helped.

We also stumbled into a medieval museum they built under this bridge - I guess it was going to be a parking garage or something but they discovered some medieval artifacts so they made a museum around it. 

Walking through Gamla Stan (the old town), lots of little cobblestone streets with touristy shops. Sadie is a natural viking. She nearly plundered this hat right out of the shop.

This is a different day I think, but this playgroun became one of our go-tos. It is on a street with what I read was the third best cup of coffee in Europe (it was pretty good) and some cool designy stores, and also it was along a bus route that went to our apartment. Also it has a zipline!