anyways, a few days have gone by, and i know you all have missed my little updates soooo much lol but i would like to share anyway!
so, three? days ago we went to a museum. it was an almost completely preserved ship! the ship was called the Vasa and it was supposed to be this great war ship, but on its maiden voyage (this is on August 10, 1628!) it sunk. lol. it only made it about a thousand meters or something like that. its pretty much the oldest preserved ship. ever. which i think is pretty cool. it was BEAUTIFUL. you have no idea. the thing looked like the ship in Goonies, sans barnacles and weeds and gold lol. so pretty, but it was just wood, all the paint had come off over the long time it had been buried in mud. but they found samples of the paint, and showed a model of what it looked like painted, holy crap! it was so bright and colorful! it was all red and gold mostly, rather gaudy lol. anyway, we spent like 2-3 hours in there and it was really neat, i saddly dont think we got any pictures because it was to dark in the building for mom's cell phone camera, and my camera is dead, and full lol.
OH and the day before yesterday we went to another great museum, it was a work of art i swear it. the whole building was a work of art. it was this viking museum. and it was rather small i suppose, but the way they did it was amazing. everything was so tasteful and beautiful and just wonderful to look at! it wasnt like usually museums that try and cram everything in there, everything was laid out, spread out, and so nicely displayed! instead of filling the place to its capacity they made everything to its best. there was a lot of cool stuff too, like dead people ;P and all sorts of bits they left behind. jewelry, some clothing, toys, tools, boats, carts. they used to do what the egyptians did, almost, put the dead people in a boat with prize possessions and horses and dogs (dead... sad) and they would burn it or something else. high up people mostly i think. it was really neat. then they (the museum) had this section that was all about questioning. like 'what defines a family?' 'what defines your culture?' 'what do you fear?' 'who defines what you believe?' it was great! it linked us, our modern lives with the past in a way i have never seen a museum or anything else do. i really loved it. there was this one room its only about as big as half my bedroom, or less, for those of you that know, and yet it had so many walls and stuff that you had to weave around to find new interesting objects. and yet id wasn't claustrophobic. i digress, so you weave in and out looking at all these tools with little blurbs near them about them and where they were found and usually each section had a question, like 'what makes industrialization' 'how does tools show evolution' and such, and then you go around this corner....................................................................................................................................................................................... and BAM you see these brushes. lol not old brushes. like toilet bowl cleaners, and toothbrushes with spiderman, and hair brushes. i laughed out loud so hard! it was great! i was shocked and absolutely engaged! i loved it. we spent another 2-3 hours here lol, and then they were getting to closing and we were like NO! (we meaning mom and i, paddy was done a LONG time ago lol) because there was another whole two exhibits that we didnt get to see! it was on medieval art i am pretty sure, but any way, we had like three mins and we rushed though (just enough to be like 'we have to come back' lol) and it was also so beautful! like they had recreated a church! high ceilings and stone and all! with WONDERFUL things placed around the room, it was so open and yet everything was great. there was also a exhibit on Mary/Maria the mother of christ and what she means to women and men of today, and what real women mean today, what is the perfect woman and such, i wish i could read swedish *sigh* (they dont always translate everything to english) i picked up a magazine that is about 'The Ideal Woman' well, it says that in swedish.... the whole thing is in swedish.... i dont know what i am going to do, but it looks interesting.
also that day mom had been carrying my bag (you know, the one i made?) and it had my water bottle and my book and my food and my money (which we were going to change that day to the swedish kronor so that i could USE it lol) and my notebook and my pocket watch and my everything i needed that day.... mom didnt put the lid on tight enough.... and you see where this is heading? yeah, so since my bag is so though thick a fabric and such we didnt know it was leaking for a while.... and everything got drenched.... its sad, but i think i lost a couple of poems because the ink bled in my notebook and then my book book is kinda ruined... well its rather water damaged still readable, but it wasnt mine.... i dont know what to do, i think i will have to buy Tammy a new book... (it was A Clockwork Orang if you are interested) and i didnt get to change my money that day because they dont take wet money.... *sigh* oh and i had to walk around stockholm with my bag empty and inside out, with a lot of crap in my hands looking like a idiot lol (not that bad, but kinda funny lol)
OH! i forgot about the outside part of the viking museum! it was really cool to actually. paddy thought it was the greatest part. you could do a lot of neat things like bake viking bread (flat bread lol) and dress like a viking, and carve ruins (yes with actual rocks and chisels, my god sweden is so trusting of its children! which is a good thing i think) there was even a place to do a 'archeological dig' but you had to sign up for it and i think pay a little more, anyway, it was full by the time we got there. there was also viking games, to make better warriors of course! like you could sit on this log that was held up by other logs, and you and another person facing you had pillows, and you had to knock the other one off without falling off yourself. paddy LOVED it even though he wasnt that good, he even made a friend! kinda, they played the game quite a few times and the other little swedish boy won every time, it was really cute ^_^ mom even told me that when they were in the cafe (they went without me, i was still in the exhibit lol) the little boy showed up and sat with paddy instead of his own family! which is just really sweet i think, because they couldnt understand each other at all! i mean they would talk at each other, but neither understood the other's language! but they were cute :D
anyway! so yeeeeah, kiegan like museums and likes to spend a lot of time there... lol
i am sorry that i have yet to tell you about yesterday and today but i have to go to bed, it is almost midnight and mama says... anywho! loves to all! especially my poor dear suffering lover lol!
night!
*K
PS I FINALLY STARTED RUNNING AGAIN! yay me!
pps i hope to have more pics up sometime soon!