Trip to Stockholm

We did a small trip to Stockholm last week. One night at the ferry, spent a day in Stockholm with our friends who live there and again a night at the ferry and back to Helsinki. From there we went to my friend's house where we spent one night before taking the bus back to my parents' house. So it was a nice couple of days meeting friends.

My friend met us at the ferry terminal in Stockholm and we first went to their house for a coffee and cakes and then walked around in the Gamla stan, which is a very nice part of Stockholm. We have got to know each other quite a few years ago on the internet at a site for Swedish mums abroad when our children were small and Carlotta still wasn't born and have kept in touch since that. That's really nice! Now all our children are so big.

Stockholm is a beautiful city and it's nice to visit it together with friends. The weather was better than expected, warm and sunny when we came there and only a couple of showers in the afternoon, when we went inside a caffee to have something to eat.

On our way to Stockholm we had a good dinner at the buffet and when we came home we bought perfumes and sweets from the tax free shop. It's kind of a tradition when you take the ferry to Sweden where the selection of sweets is huge, so it was a paradise for the children. I also bought some swedish books for me and the girls in Stockholm, so I had something nice to read in the bus on our way back home while the rain poured down. Schools started in Finland and it has been very rainy and cool, autumn in the air already.