inside the wonderful world of vee

september 7th, 2008 - traveling / copenhagen, denmark.
- fly out of seattle at 7:35am -> washingto -> arrive in copenhagen at 7:15am
- explore copenhagen on our own.
- board cruise sometime before 8:00pm.

september 8th, 2008 - at sea.
aka boring? maybe.

september 9th, 2008 - stockholm, sweden.
- arrive at 10:00am.
- visit:
   - the vasa museum (warship museum)
   - royal armory (battle gear!)
   - old town (where stockholm began)
   - coronation church (where people get coronated and married, too)
- leave stockholm at 5:00pm.

september 10th, 2008 - helsinki, finland.
- arrive at 10:00am.
- tour visit:
   - porvoo (historic district)
   - temppeliaukio rock church (church carved into bedrock)
   - senate square (neoclassical buildings? sure!)
- opportunity to go shopping for 45 minutes. mer.
- pass the suomenlinna fortress but don’t get to go in (unfortunately) :{
- leave helsinki at 6:00pm. i wonder what happens if you miss your boat?

september 11th, 2008 - st. petersburg, russia.
- arrive at 6:30am.
- tour to visit:
   - peterhof palace & grounds (built to rival versailles)
   - peter and paul fortress (russia’s tower of london)
   - st. isaac’s cathedral (220 pounds of pure gold on its roof?)
- 60 minute canal tour. oOoOo.
- hopefully go to the catherine palace, although i doubt there will be time. fuck. :{
- do whatever we want for a night. opera, perhaps? dance, perhaps? long live mother russia!

september 12th, 2008 - st. petersburg, russia.
- tour to visit:
   - http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html”>hermitage (winter palace)
   - yusupov palace (site of the assassination of rasputin)
   - the church of the savior on spilled blood
- leave st. petersburg at 6:00pm, which is no doubt going to be cold as fuck at this time of year.

september 13th, 2008 - talinn, estonia.
- arrive at 7:00am.
- tour to visit:
   - toompea hill (upper town? whatever…)
   - alexander nevsky cathedral (russian orthodox cathedrals are LOVE!!!)
   - dome church (elaborate sarcophagi and more than 60 coats of arms!)
   - town hall square (whatever…)
   - holy spirit church (ancient woodcarvings?)
- leave talinn at 1:00pm.

september 14th, 2008 - gdansk, poland.
- arrive at 9:00am.
- tour to visit:
   - malbork castle (one of poland’s oldest surviving castles!)
   - gdansk main town (arches, fountains, merchants’ palaces…)
   - st. mary’s church (brick gothic?? church!?)
- eat lunch while students from the gdansk music academy perform to us hahahahahahahahha.
- leave gdansk at 6:00pm.

september 15th, 2008 - at sea.

september 16th, 2008 - oslo, norway.
- arrive at 7:00am.
- tour to visit:
   - viking ship museum (home to three viking long boats.)
   - vigeland sculpture park (iron and bronze sculptures?)
   - holmenkollen (cradle of ski jumping in te 1952 olympics?)
- leave oslo at 2:00pm.

september 17th, 2008 - copenhagen, denmark / flying / barcelona, spain.
- arrive at 6:00am.
- explore.
- fly out of copenhagen at 2:20pm -> arrive arrive in barcelona at 5:10pm.

september 18th to 21st, 2008 - barcelona, spain.
- do whatever in barcelona.
- picasso museum? maybe.
- la rambla is apparently right up my alley.
- la padrera. (jesus, did the word gaudy stem from the man gaudi???)
- park guell.
- la boqueria.
- casa battlo.
- museu nacional d’art de catalunya? maybe.
- soccer game at camp nou? maybe? if they have soccer at that time?
- … barcelona sure would be boring if not for gaudi. lolol. jk. but maybe 1/2 as interesting for sure.
- torre agbar… no, it’s not a penis, it’s a skyscraper… with LEDs in it.

september 18th to 21st, 2008 - madrid, spain.
- prado, which houses the world’s largest collection of paintings :0
- madride pubcrawl? :0
- garden of earthly delights.
- el rastro — open air flea market? i’m thereeeeeee.
- reina sofia. the “guernica” is here.
- botin, the oldest restaurant in the world.
- puerta de europa.
- i wanted to see a bullfight but apparently the one weekend i am there there are none… :[ yeah yeah inhumane, blahblah. need to see for myself before making that decision :0 :0 :0

september 22nd, 2008 - madrid, spain / ireland, dublin.
- fly out of madrid at 6:35pm -> arrive in dublin at 8:10pm.

september 23rd, 2008 - flying.
- fly out of dublin at 6:45am -> london @ 10:05am -> vancouver at 1:45pm -> arrive in seattle at 2:35pm.
- jet lag ain’t shit; go to work.

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