An Ode to My new Best Friend

Dear Hemköp at Stigberstorget I love you!!!

Now some of you may think that after living in the same apartment for the past 9 months I should have a general idea of most things within... hmm I don't know atleast one block radius of my apartment. Which is why it was such a shock when a little over two weeks ago I discovered the most magical gem of all... a truly wonderful grocery store with in walking distance. Now in defense of my ignorance, said grocery store exists just west of my apartment, a direction I have never ventured on foot. You see a week before I moved into my apartment some one was shot (it wasn't fatal) in a dispute in an apartment somewhere to the west of my apartment.... several kilometers away and perchance not even in the city limits... but from that day forward I vowed to never go into the "scary" part of town aka anywhere west of the entrance to my door. However on April 28th... a very special day, one of my packages was sent to Hemköp instead of my normal post office. Oh yea side note... packages often get delivered to grocery stores here... weird... I know... explainable... not really. Well anywho upon retrieving my package I discovered a magical gem of a place. On the outside it slightly resembles what I imagine a crack den would look like, however on the inside the place opens up into a beautiful almost up to an American supersized is standard grocery store... cue the choir of angels. This place is beautiful, and when I say beautiful, when you walk in you are immediately greeted by a taxidermic Elk guarding bread (Just when you try and forget you are in Sweden they pull a stunt like that). You then are immediately greeted by the obligatory pre-made salads which consist of 90% pasta (the whole a salad is made of lettuce concept is a completely foreign to this land). Followed by the mediocre piles of mealy bruised "produce".... except at this store you get a wide wide wide variety of semi rotting vegetables to choose from (seee improvement!!!). Its the dairy section that really sets this store above and beyond... the cheese and yogurt (two staples in my diet) selection is out of this world. I didn't even know there were so many flavors or varieties of yogurt here (this is genuine enthusiasm)!!

I'm in love, I'm in love and I don't care who knows it lalalalalalalalalalalala!!

Did I mention it's open until 11.... OMG!!!