Day 1: "Okay, so Sweden's not as tall and blonde as I thought."

This was Mika's reaction as we walked around Stockholm today.
The plan was to explore Stockholm before we headed to Uppsala where KIYOKO is :)

However, despite our efforts to research our destinations by having deadlines, we did close to zero research because of school work and laziness. So when we got off the bus from Arlanda airport at central station, we didn't really have a clue what to do.
We walked to Gamla stan (the Old Town), got hot dogs and tried to take artsy pictures.

Is this one artsy?
This one is artsy right?

After a few hours in the city we caught the Swebus to Uppsala at 18:20. As the bus neared Uppsala and hour later we suddenly wondered how we would find Kiyoko as, like our research, we hadn't really been on top of things. Our last exchange with Kiyoko was a hurried conversation on gchat where she told us which bus to get on and which stop to get off at. So when we got off at our stop we decided we should giver her a call on her cellphone.
So we entered a shop and asked the owner if he could dial the number for us but when he looked at the number he said, "Where is she? This isn't a Swedish number" So instead we asked him for the directions to Flogsta Building 4 where Kiyoko lives (we later learned that the first 2 digits of the phone number was the country code).

We got to building 4 but still didn't know how to contact Kiyoko so we camped outside on the grass and had our first hippie moment.

We finally found KIYOKO!!

Tomorrow we're off to a Lund, on the west of Sweden, for a carnival.