Day of the Sleep Deprived Travelers

We arrived in Paris at 8:30am and found ourselves on the other side of security and customs with just enough time to grab a bite to eat before heading for the plane for the last leg of the trip into Stockholm.  Once we were finally here, we grabbed the Arlanda Express train to the central train station T-Centralen.  A quick ride on the subway and we were off to the hostel.  Unlike hotels in the US, the hostel has very limited hours when the office is open to check in and check out.  We arrived (with luggage in tow) 45 minutes before the office opened so the students set off to do some preliminary shopping for breakfast and generally relax while waiting to be able to check in.  Nic, Devon and I, meanwhile headed to our hotel (about a 7 minute walk away) where we also checked in and tried to recuperate from the long day of travel.  We met up again with the students an hour or so later and headed out for a walk down to the old town where we saw the parliament, the site of a massacre from a revolution and generally engaged in walking around.  Finally, with everyone tired and hungry, we headed out to pizza for dinner.  The pizza was quite good and everyone generally enjoyed themselves.  At that point the students headed out to do a little exploring before heading back to the hostel while Nic, Devon and I went to pay a brief visit to one of Nic’s brothers before heading back for a well deserved sleep (which happened right after writing this post before it got posted...my bad)