This is my favorite photo from my trip last month.

I love this building in Stockholm — the graphic print on the glass balcony railing is awesome.

We’re staying at the unbearably hip Nordic Sea Hotel in Stockholm. Besides custom-made modern furniture, it also has a bar made out of ice (with ice chairs, ice tables, ice glasses, etc.), appropriately called The Absolut Ice Bar. The temperature is kept at 23 degrees Fahrenheit, and they give you a big coat and gloves before you go in.

There’s not much to do in there — it’s really small — other than pick up your complimentary drink, take some pictures, and make puns such as “This place sure is cool!” and “This is Absolut-ly a cool place!” (This doesn’t get old.)

So we entertained ourselves by sliding our ice glasses around on a table, which quickly turned into sliding multiple ice glasses into each other, and then stacking as many ice glasses on top of each other as possible. We wound up entertaining the rest of the bar, too.

After 20 minutes in there, with freezing toes, we were ready to leave. But it was a cool experience. (Still not old.)

Stockholm is incredibly beautiful, and the weather is the definition of perfect. Everything here feels very clean and well cared for. There really aren’t enough hyperbolic ways to describe it.