Duke's Excellent Adventure!: Searching for the WTF moments. (Tallinn and Stockholm)

August 22 and 23, 2012
Tallinn and Stockholm

Now that I've been to these places several times, I've done the big things, I know what I like, and I know the area, so now I run out into these places thinking, "What's something, new, exciting, weird, or wacky? What am I going to look at for years to come and say, 'WTF?'"

I think I found a few things.

For example, I know that whenever I'm looking for a good Kiek in de Kok, I can come here:

Or if I wanted to play with Shrek and Donkey, Estonia is good for that as well.

But what I'd really like to see, is a good street performers battle.

Time to do my most favorite thing ever.

Unbeknownst to me, as I was prepping for my first shot, an Estonian Jujitsu troupe was assembling behind me to watch. I let the first one fly, and FWAP! It was the center bulls eye, and the entire team gathered behind me cheered. I freaked out and jumped because I thought I was alone. They proceeded to watch the next nine arrows.

You know, no pressure or anything.

That's right, top score! 10 shots, center bulls eye is worth 10 points, each ring out is worth one less point consecutively.

I got 82 out of a possible 100 points.

This was my second time. I credit the teachers, and Jennifer Lawrence's performance in hunger games. When you exhale before letting go of the arrow like she does, it steadies the muscles in your arms so they aren't shaking when you let go of the string. It's just a real blessing to find something that you're good at, and that you enjoy doing.

The very next day, Stockholm did not fail to deliver it's fair share of WTF to me.

That video is a result of my massive wrong turn. I set out from the ship in search of the Vasa Museum. But silly me, I used the map in my head instead of the one on paper, and I kind of forgot there was an extra island in my path, and I turned onto that instead of going where I needed to go.

Here, I'll show you better:

I ran from A to B instead of A to C.

The day was not a loss however. I got plenty of pictures of the journey despite the destination.

King me.

Here is where I was trying to go. The Vasa was a massive (at the time) Swedish warship that sank in it's own harbor moments after setting sail for the first time. Oops. It was salvaged and placed in a museum. These purple masts are erected to show how tall the ship was when it was afloat in the water.