smitten with stockholm.

as part of our european tour,
my dear friend hannah and i stopped by the land of the vikings for a few days to explore the territory of my ancestors,
and we instantly fell in love with stockholm.

there's something {or a lot of things, really} inexplicable about stockholm that i am so drawn to.
maybe it's the cleanliness or the unique architecture
 or just that very distinct scandinavian vibe oozing out of every street corner. 

or maybe it's the well-dressed, tall, handsome people {and the fact that half of the people looked just like me, or like they could be my first cousin twice-removed or something}
 or the waterfronts at the end of nearly every street and all of the bridges and water ferries and boats. 

or maybe it's the ultra-high-tech metro system,
 or the swedish meatballs, or the bilar.
yeah, the bilar definitely has something to do with it {as attested to by the fact that we finished our first bag of this delicious little candy a mere twenty minutes after stepping foot in scandinavia}. 

no matter what it was that made me fall so hard {and so fast!} for stockholm,
 i couldn't get enough of this city. even amidst well-below-freezing temperatures.
and that's saying something!

don't you worry!
if you think this is the end of my stockholm photos/stories/adoration,
you're quite mistaken.
you can expect a few {thousand} more stockholm photos very soon! 

but until then, i'm headed to the nearest ikea to pick up another bag of bilar...