Saturday, June 21, 2008

Stockholm, Sweden, Sat 31 May 2008

More conference sessions today, the last ones including the roadmap ahead. It was a really good conference, I enjoyed a lot of the sessions and it was great to have an opportunity to meet and speak with everyone.

In the afternoon we took a boat out to our afternoon activities. It was so nice being out on the water and it was a great way to see the city. We had a choice of three activities for the afternoon; a boat museum, a theme park or an open aired museum called Skansen. I originally was signed up for the theme park but after my night out I decided a more sedate Skansen was the way to go. Plus I knew they had animals there so I was excited about that.

We strolled through the park, jumped on a cable car and enjoyed a drink out in the sun. Then we went and checked out the animals. I got to see reindeer, brown bears (very cool!) and other smaller animals like otters and birds etc. The bears were the coolest. There were two younger bear, probably call them teenagers, who were play fighting together which was heaps fun to watch. And there was a mum bear with three little cubs who were so gorgeous. Sadly my camera had almost died of battery by then so i didn't get many photos of the animals. There were also wolves which I really wanted to see too but one of the mums had just had pups and the rest were in hiding so didn't get to see them.

We had our last group dinner together at Skansen which was also an awards dinner. Intergen won best international partner, go Intergen! It was a good night and good food. We headed back into town again and ended up at the irish pub again. It was the same band so not quite the same the second time round and I was pretty tired so wasn't a late one.

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