Bye America

Returning to Brooklyn was great, although we only stayed there one night. Crashed at our friend Nancys house again. I really like Greenpoint. That's the neighborhood she lives in. Being the last night in America for a while I headed to a bodega and secured myself a six pack of good old PBR thinking if I did find it in Europe it would be an import and expensive. On to the stoop I went for one of my favorite ways to kill time. Beer and people watching. The one thing that reminds me that I'm in NYC is nobody returns my greetings.

Zoey and I decided to get some champagne and found a great vegetarian restaurant that let us bring our own bottle in. We ate some hummus and pita celebrated the start to the European part of the trip.

Nancy returned home about the same time we did, so we made some dinner and visited. Thank you to everyone who called that night. It was nice to hear so many voices.

We called for a driver to take us to the airport the next day and had a bunch of time to kill. Ever had the option to do some duty free shopping? Pretty rad. Super cheap booze and smokes. $90 for four cartons of camels. Full gallons of Jack Daniels for $30. Amazing. I didn't buy any booze because Iceland doesn't let you bring booze in. Whatever you purchase gets brought on to the plain for you so you don't get to use it in America. All the cigarette packs say not for consumption in America.

The flight was all right. We left about 9 pm so the sun had just set. All the seats in the airplane had tvs in the headrest with choose your own entertainment. Get this Becky, Romeo and Juliet, Mulan Rouge, and Australia were all options. I got to see Man Under Fire, Night at the Museum, and Slum dog Millionaire.

That was the shortest night I have ever seen. Since we were flying east the sunrise was only about four hours after we left. Kind of messes up you day. The ocean looked very cool from that high.

It was about five hours to Iceland. They make you go through customs when you arrive from a non European country, because their security is different. Or so they say. It seemed the same to me. Right after that we hopped on the airplane to Sweden. That flight was about two and a half hours.

We arrived safely, with Zoeys cousin Ana waiting for us. No customs to go through in Sweden. So no passport stamp. :( bummer.

Stockholm seams nice. I was very tired by the time we got here. I think I lost like six hours or something. So yesterday all I did was watch tv and play on the blackberry. This was nice. Haven't had a tv day in months. Went out that night. No so sure how I feel about that yet. I was very shy and uncomfortable.

Today we are going to another Ana's birthday party about an hour away from the city. Should be a good time.

Happy forth of July to all. Take pictures and email them to me. And have fun.