Day 14: Nynashamn/Stockholm - There are no kids on this ship

After a nice long sleep thanks to a good backwards time change, we had a nice breakfast and were all ready to take the tender across the bay to the little town of Nynashamn... but we had to wait a while for our turn, which is why I am writing this now. Not much has happened yet, except so far Sweden looks real pretty.
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We survived the tender ride (after waiting about an hour), found the train station, boarded a train, and made it to Stockholm! A day pass cost us $24 a person and their credit card machine was broken, so we paid in cash and we got change in krona. We won't be using the pass except to get back. Then we paid 100 kr a person for a 24 hour ticket for the Hop On Hop Off boat. This is interesting only because we had been briefly looking into doing a cruise ship excursion, but instead we did it ourselves for about half the price.

Stockholm:

 More Stockholm:

We found the Royal Palace, but we didn't go inside - a little palace'd out at this point.

So we took the boat to the island with the Vasa museum on it, but we had already decided not to go inside, a good thing because it turned out the museum was full and they weren't letting anyone in until it had emptied some.

The Vasa museum is dedicated to the 17th century war ship the Vasa, which sunk in the harbor on its maiden voyage because it was too heavy. It lay in the harbor for many years until they pulled it out, so it was remarkably preserved and a huge tourist attraction. But it wasn't cheap to get in, so we just explored the island instead.

Myra's favorite part:

The Gate:

We walked through the park and saw lots of little baby birds,

Boats:

then got back on the HoHo boat and went to see the 19th century amusement park, Gröna Lund. We walked around the area a bit, found WiFi and posted on the blog, then got on the boat and went to Gamla Stan, the old town.

We saw someone doing this game/gamble con with the 3 boxes and the marble:

The old town was pretty, but it was basically shops and restaurants in old buildings and cobblestone streets.

The train ride was an hour, so we had to leave Stockholm at this point, in order to make it back for the last tender at 5.

The tender back was filled with teenagers we had somehow missed over the entire trip. For a while we had been almost positive we were the youngest people on the cruise -- Rich especially insists there are no kids on the ship (though we have seen at least ten of them). There is even a kids play area for the invisible kids.

The show tonight (or wait, was it last night? I'm confused) was a magician named Sanders. He was kind of annoying, but his act was fun. Though Rich was not impressed.

This night, the sun set so early, before 10. Wow!

~Myra & Mia, varying paragraphs