The ride from Helsinki to Stockholm is about sixteen hours, most of which I was asleep for.  The boat, far from being a ferry, was a legit cruise ship, with several restaurants, a casino, duty free stores, and annoying people.  Our room was quite nice, with plenty of space between the beds!  There’s a picture to help show what I now consider plenty of room.

I got a veggie burger, which is by definition a mediocre meal, but sometimes medicore is pretty nice.  Pop went to bed kinda early (~10?), and I tried to enjoy the Las Vegas-lite of the boat, although it turns out that’s impossible.  I got a gin and tonic, wandered around, and went to sleep (~12).  Dad got up sometime in the middle of the night and wandered around the boat as well.  When I was wandering, all the young folk were in their rooms, napping and pre-gaming.  When he wandered around, they were passed out and starting fights all over the boat, like in stairwells and stuff.  It’d probably be fun if you were young, and it makes a bit more sense now that I know how much beer costs in Scandinavia, but on the whole, kinda weird.

The nature part of the trip- like islands and birds and sky and stuff- was awesome!  It was so strange, being on this boat which was going pretty quickly, and having sea gulls glidin above the boat, going about the exact same speed.  It was like they were floating.  Should have gotten a picture.  Approaching Stockholm (which photos I think will be in the next post) is amazing.  It’s a crazy long archipelago, every island somehow prettier than the last.  That infinitely increasing prettiness really gets exponentiated in Norway.  To be seen.