First Day in STOCKHOLM | +Swedish Meatballs!

You look on a map, and you're like, okay, it looks small. And then you get here and you're like, wow, this place is huge. What's up, Pea Nation? Today we are in Stockholm, Sweden. And it is so nice outside, I cannot wait to explore the city. However, we were brought these beautiful, what are they called? Cinnamon buns. But they don't have icing on them, they have this, like, super crystallized sugar. So it's like little pearls, almost, of sugar. It looks like big rock salt crystals. Rock salt sugar. Yeah, like it would go on a pretzel. So we just had breakfast, and we're about to go into the inner city and find some really cool old architecture. And just like that, four stops later, we have made it to the old town. And it's like the most adorable little old town. We're kind of here on this island. If you don't know, Stockholm is comprised of a bajillion little islands. Yeah, it's like 13 islands in the city, and then the suburbs get even more islands. There's water flowing everywhere. But this place is super duper cute. It is just like, it's hard to explain. Also, it smells like fish and chips all over the place, which really makes me feel like I'm on the sea. You know what I mean? Little people drinking beer and eating fish and chips. It's great. Everyone just hanging out having fun. So we've made it here to the palace, and it's so crazy because they let you walk inside. And there's even a little cafe here. But we were just kind of considering that it might be similar to Buckingham Palace, and they would never let you inside that. There's 600 rooms, and it has one more window. It's making it the biggest palace in Europe. Christopher II of Denmark killed the king of Sweden in battle. And Christopher II had always thought that he'd been done, and that he and his family had been done really wrong by the Swedes because somehow they pushed his family out of Sweden, and they should have had power over it. So when Christopher II finally got power over Sweden, he had a huge banquet to celebrate that he was the new king of Sweden. So in a building right over here, he had a huge banquet and invited 82 dignitaries of sorts of Sweden. And they were having fun, they were eating, they were drinking. At the very end of the banquet, his guards locked everybody inside, and he read off what all of those 82 people had done wrong. Their families had done wrong to his family. So he was blaming them of doing wrong to him and his family, and they were all sentenced to death. So this is obviously a very grim story. So what happened here in this square is that over the next three days, Christopher II killed every single one of those 82 dignitaries. And this red building behind me has these tan-looking stones. You can probably see them. And there are 82 stones. And people think that it's not just a coincidence that these stones represent the 82 dignitaries that were murdered by Christopher II of Denmark. So behind me is a famous house here in Stockholm. It has housed many famous people, including an artist and also a metal or steel tycoon here in Stockholm that used to walk down this alleyway every single day. And so apparently his history about him was lost for a long time, and then he had a resurgence. These people started remembering who he was and what he did for the city. So they named this street after him, and it's Martin... Martin Strutsig? But it's the smallest street in all of Stockholm. But if you look down it, it looks so cool. We are here at Meatballs for the People, thick Swedish meatballs. And I'll be honest, I know IKEA has them, but this is the first time. So we are here for the real deal. We have not one clue if this is very Swedish, but we have a cracker and a dill yogurt sauce and then pickled onion. First Swedish meatball. Making sure to get all the gravy. Smells delicious. It's way better than I thought it would be. It's creamy. The meatball itself is strictly pork, but it's in this super good creamy mushroom sauce. It is heavenly. It is the stuff. Cream and more... That's not sour cream. That's goat cheese. It's so good. It's like creamy. So we are now walking through the neighborhood of Nykro... I think that's how you say it. Nykro... I'm not really sure. But it is really, really cool. We saw the old town, what we're supposed to see in the downtown areas, but it's really when you get in the neighborhoods of the cities you're visiting, they get really, really interesting, and you start envisioning yourself actually living in the city. That's true. I could definitely see us living in Stockholm. Really? Yeah. Well, I say that, but it is the warmest month of the year. The sun is shining. Everyone's out having fun, sunbathing on a Tuesday, which I'm like, oh, maybe that's every day. But winter's a different story. Maybe you're right. Rethink it. Maybe not the best. Summer home. Okay, thank you for watching this video on our first day in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm sorry for the wind. It has been an amazing day. The sun has been out. It's been awesome. And since it's Zach's birthday, we're going home. We are making a Lidl lasagna, which is our absolute favorite, and maybe some brownies and ice cream. It's been a great day. Happy birthday. Thank you. That's so good. Mmm.