Woo Hoo! The new “official” HYSUL site design is now up. It’s actually been a work in progress for some time now and I had hoped to have it up prior to our departure. Oh well, better late than never. There are still a few minor loose ends to clean up, but overall I think it turned out great! A special shout out to Stacey for helping to bring my vision to reality. She rocks my PS socks!
I’ve got to catch up on some previous days of blogging, but that will have to wait for later. We are currently in Stockholm Sweden and about to check out Hotellet Bar one of the World’s Best Bars.
Today was a bit of an eye-opener as we felt the pinch in our pockets. My god things are expensive here! A gyro, fries and a soda cost 65 Swedish krona which is over $10 in the U.S.! From what we hear, Norway is going to be even worse. I can’t wait to go back to Thailand again.
Jay couldn’t even bring himself to spending money here, and he was starving so he picked up an appetizer at good ol’ 7-11
We just touched down in Stockholm and checked into our closet-sized-room at the Connect Hotel.
Seriously, I think most prisoners have larger cells.
Just goes to show what the weak dollar buys you in this expensive city. Whatever, it was walking distance from the runway and we’re only here for one night until we travel into the heart of the city.
It’s just about time to say goodbye to the awesome city of Edinburgh. We thought today we would take it easy and just roam the streets checking out the street performers. On just bout every block there were acrobats, musicians, artists, jugglers, and vendors selling their wares. One of the standout acts that had me mesmerized was Juzzie Smith who is a one-man-band from Australia. He had a crowd of about 90+ people all watching in awe as he played harmonica, an electric guitar, a stomp box, a tambourine, a maraca, and a didgeridoo all the while singing. If you ever have the chance to see him perform, run, don’t walk! I even shelled out £10 for his CD it was that amazing.
After Juzzie blew my mind we found these adorable little Asian girls…
…promoting a show called Taekwon vs. B-Boy. Sounded interesting and we had a 2 for 1 coupon, so we went down to venue 112 to check it out and were pleasantly surprised by the performance. The dancing and martial arts worked very well together on stage with a lot of cross over. It even had it’s own love story sub-plot which was quite funny.
After the show we took a quick photo with the crews…
…and then headed back to Linda’s house for a farewell drink with the flatmates.
A special thanks to Linda for making our stay in Edinburgh so enjoyable. We’ll never forget it!
After leaving the castle on Saturday, we passed by a building with a sign outside for “Camera Obscura and World of Illusions.” From the outside it looked like a tourist trap, but we later read some pretty favorable reviews, so today we decided to check it out, and it was actually pretty cool.
Lots of mirrors with lights…
…mirrors without lights…
…distortion mirrors…
…hidden images…
…plasma balls…
…and plasma cylinders…
The most fun part was a large dark hallway with glass on both walls stretching from floor to ceiling. Behind the glass were grids of of single points of lights that would change colors, and behind the light were mirrors. Standing in this hallway seemed like you were standing in the middle of space with multicolored stars all around you for as far as you could see.
I cranked up the exposure on the camera and moved it around a bit as the points of light changed colors to create these cool images.
