Day 10

Greeting from Stockholm, Sweden.........
We started our day early again today. We ate some breakfast and headed down to our tour. The tour started out with a drive around the city or I guess island. Stockholm has many different ones. Starting on Sodermalm (or south island I believe) we drove to an overlook to take pictures of the old town and then crossed to a different island. Jeremy and I choose to hang out in the bus because we had already taken pictures from the ship. It is really nice having a room with a balcony expecially on the back. We then made our way through the old town to another island called Djurgarden where we passed by all the ambassdor's houses. While driving around they also showed us where they had built a bomb shelter for around 50,000 people if they needed it, but as for right now its a gas station and car lot. ( The gas here cost around $8 a gallon, I guess we shouldn't complain so much about how much gas costs us!!) They also tax people that drive, so most people take the trains or buses so they don't have to pay the taxes. Anyways after the drive we headed to The Vasa Museum. This museum holds a warship from 1628, that sunk only 20 min after being launched on its maiden voyage. The ship was built out of oak trees so the whole thing was made of wood. It had statues made out of wood all over it, and had two rows of gun decks. While it was making its maiden voyage the captain, his men, and their families were the first to sail it to a port where the soldiers where waiting to aboard the ship and the women and children would get off. But after leaving a few feet away they had a small wind gust and the ship tipped to his right side but then came back to normal and after a few more hundred feet they hit another big wind gust and the ship turned again but this time it didn't regain and went under. They said the reason it went down so fast was because of how she was built. They built her so she was to top heavy. The captain knew this because when building it they had 30 men run from one side to the other and it only took three times for the ship to tip, but he couldn't do anything about it because the king gave them the order to build it that way and you couldn't tell the king other wise. They did tell us about the meaurments but neither Jer or I can remember so we will have to go research it. They also say that because they had the gun doors open so they could shoot them right after they left that when the ship tipped it filled up faster with water and sunk immediately. 25-50 men die the rest were saved. After the museum we headed to the old town where we ended our tour and went shopping. We ended up getting a replica of the Vasa. We then walked back to the ship and are hanging out now. Show always start late so we usually watch movies in the room. Oh and we are becaming more and more of a celebrity, they played the show over and over again last night. I got a comment coming back on the ship asking "If I still love him after the newlywed game?" of course I said "yes" :) The next two days we will be at sea and then on sat. we will be back to London. I can't believe how fast our trip has been but I do miss home a bit. I hope all is still well at home. And I hope Rover isn't getting to mad at us!! I also want to know if Keesha or Mom could start looking at our flight to see if we are still ok. You can check ATL first then JFK. We would appreciate it. We don't get much internet time so we can't really look ourselves. You can write here or myspace to let us know. We love you all!!