by Amy April 20th, 2008

Stockholm (second unsolicited compliment on book by the guy at the desk in the hostel), walking around old quarter, eating cookies with sugary center at the bus stop + Went to Stockholm open air museum with houses from the area that were from the 1800s. Rick Steves said this was the best open air museum in Europe! + Ate McDonald’s and watched stunt birds+

Story: Stunt birds in front of Mcdonalds in Stockholm
We couldn’t decide what to eat in Stockholm after the open air museum, so we wandered along the harbor and followed the streams of people and fell upon a very busy square where there was a Turkish music performance. We kept walking but didn’t see anything interesting to eat other than a TGIFridays, but it was very expensive, so we tried to go to a Swedish fast food burger place, which was also quite expensive for the type of food, so we decided to settle on good old McDonald’s across the street. As we sat by the window eating our Big Macs and fries, we noticed that there were a lot of birds that looked like seagulls but were smaller and a lot more agile flying around. One particular one kept flying down by the road and then doing crazy flying maneuvers in the air to avoid the cars coming by. We couldn’t figure out why it kept flying down and putting it self in danger. Amy thought it was lost and didn’t know where to go. Finally, we saw it. The French Fry. It was in the middle of the street, and the bird was trying it’s hardest to grab it!!! Finally, it made a successful charge from the air and grabbed it and flew off. Afterwards, more birds came and there were several of these birds doing stunts in front of our window. Then, the seagulls came. And hit jackpot!! There was an unfinished burger by the trash can! unfortunately, it was too big for any one seagull to take, so a lot of it splattered back onto the ground for other birds to share. But this definitely was not as impressive as the smaller stunt birds that definitely gave us a stunt bird show unlike any other.

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