The next day of our trip, we woke up to the weather that we had been expecting the day before. It was overcast and snowing! Jenae was really excited about the snow- the picture above captures her giddiness pretty well. We walked around for a bit, and found a theater that is devoted to chamber and folk music, which is really exciting!
We also went to a small island called Skeppsholmen, that mainly has museums which was nice because it was really cold and snowing. We went to the modern art museum there, which was really nice. They had exhibits of local as well as more internationally known artists.
The modern art museum
Sculpture in front of the museum...
We walked by the Grand Hotel, which I thought was cool...Because it was so cold, we went back to Gamla Stan for lunch. We found a little cafe called "Kaffe Koppen, which was pretty packed when we arrived. They told us that they had more seating downstairs, so we headed down a tiny spiral staircase into a small basement area lit with only candlelight. It was such a great little place, and the food was amazing. We split a chicken quiche and a brie and salami sandwich, both of which were really great. The atmosphere was also very nice for the cold weather, with the candlelight and cozy cellar feeling.
After lunch we went to the Swedish economic museum, which has the largest collection of Scandinavian coins dating back to the Viking age. It was cool to see all the coins and how they progressed and became more uniform as time went on.
While in Gamla Stan, we also saw the changing of the guard. Here's a video of the guards changing over in the snow! It's funny how similar it was to the display I saw in Prague (which I also posted a video of..).
After the last museum, we took the train back to our hotel and got sandwich makings at the grocery store around the corner for dinner. It was nice to have an early night in, mainly because we had been walking around in the cold and snow for the whole day!
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