The weather was fantastic today. Lower 70’s and perfectly blue skies. So what a better way to spend the day than in a museum?
We went to the Swedish History museum and it was amazing. They had a Viking exhibit full of artifacts from Birka and all over Scandinavia. They even had a skeleton of a young girl and a reconstructed model of her face!
Authentic runestone
Gold trinkets
1000 year old snaffle bit. Same style our horse uses!
Swords found in burial mounds
Reconstructed bridle- not accurately sized though! Big enough for a Clydesdale, not the small horses they had during that time.
Beautiful gold crowns from the museum’s gold artifact collection
One of the many cool doors around the museum
Viking keys
Huge medieval chest
After the museum, we split up. Dad and Michael hit up the local amusement park-
While me and mom tried to go shopping. I say tried because we got on a ferry that took us only halfway to where we wanted to go before turning around, so we had to take a tram, and then the subway to into the center of Stockholm. By the time we got there around 6:30, most of the little stores had closed up. So we headed for a relaxing evening at home. Tomorrow we’ll go back downtown. It’s our last day in Stockholm tomorrow too.
Happy Fourth of July!