Discount Shopping in Stockholm and other Incongruities

(One of these is banana flavor. Thank you to Google Images for a truly frightening image.)

If you are one of my facebook friends, you will already know that I am the proud owner of a rather adorable brand of fish paste with dill. I like to find strange foods at grocery stores, ostensibly for Jeremy, but I admit that I like them, too-- and fish eggs in a tube with a insanely blond boy on the packaging proved too tempting to resist. I also bought a chocolate bar with a gooey licorice called 'Plopp', and some rather normal little mocha-fudge cakes.

Stockholm is kind of an expensive city, and really too hip for its own good. In fact, it may be even hipper than Berlin. I went right into the dark heart of hipness and tried to find affordable goodies-- they exist! I found crazy sunglasses at the thrift store, and a very reduced and adorable dress in a boutique.

And there is a dance museum!

We still haven't bought a new camera, and here is what I could take pictures of with my phone:
The cherry trees were in full bloom! Greedy girl that I am, I got twice the amount of cherry trees this year.



across the street from the opera



The street's name is "Fatburstrappan", and I could not get the horrifying visions out of my head.

In other big news: I am teaching at the Schwetzingen Dance Days this summer! It's a week long workshop with lots of different teachers (ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and now baroque). There is a beautiful palace with gardens there, too. To celebrate this new development, I cooked an all-green dinner: artichokes, snails with herb butter sauce (already made, but our forks are too big so we had to stab the suckers with chopsticks in order to get them out of the shells), and asparagus soup.

And now I think I have grossed you out enough.