Day 7: Stockholm, Sweden

Today is our last night in Stockholm. I can't believe our week is up! 

We took a half day tour of the city, and Ducks owners Henry & Susan Samueli helped me, by posing with the Ducks towel at the Royal Palace. After the tour, some of us went to the Pelikan for Swedish Meatball lunch.

Finland and Sweden may be only an hour's plane ride from each other, but they are different.  Finland is quiet, laid back, and take their time.  Sweden is noisy (but not as noisy as Americans), much more populated, and a bit more abrasive than the Finns.

Downtown Stockholm

City Hall

City trashcan

On a city tour of City Hal

Sandberg cheers the Ducks

View of City hall from across the river

Royal Palace guard

Ducks owners Henry & Susan Samueli

Lunch at Pelikan restaurant!

Orange Soda

Cider

Cauliflower soup with bacon

$26 Swedish Meatballs (but in Sweden they're just meatballs)

Nordic Sea Hotel and ICEBAR Stockholm

When we were in Helsinki, we tried going to their Ice Bar but was turned away because they had a special event.  They told us that in Stockholm there was a similar Ice Bar, and children were allowed to go. 

I wanted to go to this, but today was cold and rainy, and Karen had hurt herself checking in, and I ended up hanging out with Roger. 

Melissa and the others went and she took pictures.....

Added info:
The FastFoodMaven just posted that there will be an IceBar in Orange County.
Click here for the article.

Ducks at Ericsson Globe

The Ericsson Globe arena was about a mile from our hotel.  The arena is in a "city walk" type area where there's bars and restauants near the arena.  Before the game, we had dinner at one of the restaurants located inside the arena. By the way, their fast food choices were awful (don't complain, Ducks fans, when eating at Honda).

Our seats were awful. First row normally would be sweet but there was a big gap between our seats and the rink.  Most of the fans moved to other locations (not sure how they found spare seats!), but I stayed.

Pre game dinner

Go Ducks... getting NHL Premiere / Stockholm souvenirs



Awful view from my seat... notice the gap (meaning, there should not be people walking!)

 

Warm up



View from my seat during the game



Standing for the National Anthem



Each player paired up with a local hockey kid

Day 6: Stockholm

The Ducks left Helsinki and went to Stockholm to play the NY Rangers. We also found a great cafe/ bakery for lunch.