Flea Market, Parade & City Hall

Met LL n Dom at the Hotorget flea market at 11:30am.. The square at Hotorget is used as a place to sell mainly flowers n fruits on weekdays n Saturday but on Sunday, it is transformed into a flea market.. people will set up stalls peddling second hand goods.. ranging from used clothes, shoes, coats, toy cars, old telephones(those with a rotating dial) n even antique pistols n swords..

Posing by the only stall selling flowers here. usually during weekdays.. abt half the sqaure will be filled with such stalls..
Pretending to read a second hand Swedish book abt North Korea.. haha

At a stall selling so-called handmade shawls n other stuff.. Dom n LL bought a shawl each after bargaining it down from 300kr to 240kr for 2 shawls... LL took a lot of pics to see if its nice on her.. haha.. here's the final shawl she decided to buy..

Posing with their shawls..

At one of the stalls selling old telephones n other old stuff..

After this, we went straight to Gamla Stan where the change of guard parade will start at 1pm..
n of course along the way.. we took more pics of nice scenery..



The guards getting into position..

Posing with the small accompanying military band..

The contingent of incoming guards..

As the guards marched towards the Royal Palace, we followed them.. haha we ran at time so that can get a better view of them n also take pics with them..haha
Here, LL n Dom marching with the band..

Posing with the parade contingent

A very happy LL marching with the guards... hahaa

At the parade square, a guard watches the exit so that no civilians would obstruct the parade..

Drum Performance by the military band..



Rolling up the flag..

Posing with the Royal Palace..



With the cannon..

With the guard..

2 crazy guys marching in the square..

haha LL n I had some fun with Dom's sunglasses.. Acting very cool n bad boy..:P


yo yo yo.. wassup man..

haha note the reflection in the glasses.. (can see LL taking pic in one n Dom in the other..)

Trying to be cool like the guard.. but ended up looking like a blind man standing by the guard post.. haha

After all the act cool n phototaking at ROyal Palace.. we walked around Gamla Stan a bit..




We were toking abt wat my friend told me abt England.. abt hailstones falling instead of snow.. when suddenly it rained small, hard objects like pebbles.. it looks like snow but doenst feel like it as it is as hard as a pebble but as it is rather small.. so it doesnt really hurt.. n it lasted for a short while only.. off we proceeded to the City Hall where LL n me is very unsatisfied with the pictures we took the evening b4 the buffet dinner.. due to insufficient lighting n not so good cameras.. haha, the pics do not turn out like wat i want.. n i brought my bao pei camera this time..

The view of the City Hall from the other side of the river..

Scenery by the City Hall..

Ducks by the City Hall swimming in a limited amt of water.. as most of the lake is frozen.. note the texture of the water surface..


Posing by a statue.. haha.. my favorite in City Hall.. (dont noe why)

LL trying out n posing with the shawl she bought just now.. i even included a flag in her pic.. haha

Stoning on the steps of City Hall

Posing with statues as usual..



Just one step away from the freezing cold river...

City Hall n snow..


Posing with my fav statue in City Hall again.. this time an illusion of closeup..


More by the river..

This pic attest to my fine photography skill.. haha LL posing like she is missing home in a foreign land.. very MTV style.. reminds me of a recent Stefanie Sun MTV.. :P
Various pics of Me inside a big clam.. (i tink it is a fountain in summer)



Pics in some other part of the City Hall..



LL helping me to take pic of me with MTV style..


A butt shot of Dom...

Posing with a golden figure...

Back in her room, LL posing with Dom's shawl..

Cant understand wats all the fuss with the shawl.. decided to put on LL shawl to see wat issit like.. feels n looks stupid on me though... haha

We tok to another guy who will be going to France with us to plan out our Easter Europe trip!!.. woo hoo!!..going to Netherlands, France, Germany, Czech Republic n UK this Easter.. hehehe..
AFter whcih we r hungry liao.. so Dom n LL prepared some fried rice with msuhroom n cheese n tomato n bacon n sausage.. haha ROJAK!!.. we intended to eat baked rice.. but too troublesome so just dump everything inside n fry...

LL in charge of frying the stuff

Dom in charge of cooking the rice

n I m in charge of EATING!!.. haha