Howard and Lois' Top 10 List

My parents arrived with Aunt Jan, April 27-May 12, to see for themselves what our Stockholm life is all about.  We had a wonderful two weeks exploring by car, bus, tram and on foot.  Following is their Top Ten list from their visit... since they did not include any commentary, I get to!

Howard and Lois' Top 10 favorite things in Stockholm.... 

1) Being with Nancy, Gordon and the girls

teaching Sofia the fine art of crimping pie crusts

celebrating Grams/Mom's 83rd birthday, May 5th

lighting the traditional princess torte

happy birthday Mom!

the paparazzi

I made Annamaria's chocolate torte for American Mother's Day

Sofia declares it good enough to lick her plate

a really hard map of Stockholm puzzle - the girls let Grams put in the last piece since it was her birthday present, after all!

2) Vasa Museum - Stockholm's treasure.  Look for a blog post on this in the near future. 

3) Millesgarden - beautiful outdoor sculpture garden.

4) Army Museum - free on Tuesdays after 5pm.  Gabby wasn't sure Grams and Papa were allowed to leave the house on their own (the museum is one block away and Jan and I were out).  She stalled them as long as she could.  Happy to report they made it there and back just fine! 

5) Stockholm's City Hall

6) Drottningholm Palace - the official residence of the Swedish Royal family.  Blog post on this soon too!

7) Nordica Museum - this beautiful museum, located on Djurgarden, covers Scandinavian history.

8) The Cafe Tram and fika stops (never met a pastry we didn't like!)

lemon meringue at Flickorna

9) Villaggio Restaurant for Mom's 83rd birthday & other restaurants (Wienercafeét, Prime Burger, Coco & Carmen).  After just four days in Stockholm Dad declared a burger sounded good since he'd only had healthy food to eat... so we headed to Prime Burger, he was satisfied!  Dad was impressed with the great restaurants and food to which I replied 'it's hard work exploring the city every day to find the best food and shopping!' 

Villagio's beef tenderloin

Villagio's warm chocolate cake

lunch at Wienercafeét

chicken club

shrimp

10) Seeing the shops and department stores - NK, Åhléns, Hotorget, PUB, Salu Hall

ice cream outside of Salu Hall with the girls after school

Mom and Dad being very Swedish.... holding down opposite ends of the bench in our boat

wandering Gamla Stan