country music, Texas, and margaritas...in Stockholm?

I met up with Philly and Nikki (my two American friends here, also au pairs) on Friday night for dinner, and we ended up walking around Stockholm trying to find a restaurant to eat at for about an hour and a half. It was such a surreal thing, to be walking around and trying to find a place to eat...to not know where to go. Back home, there was always tons of choices and it usually wasn't difficult to get into the place. But here we came across a number of different restaurants that all required reservations or had a two hour wait. We kept going from place to place and were starting to get a little tired of walking around - to the point where we we were considering just heading back to Philly's place and eating at the deserted-on-a-Friday-night Thai restaurant - when we came across.....

Texas Longhorn Steakhouse.

No, really! It was a tiny little restaurant, only about 15 tables in the place, a little itty bitty bar, and all the Texas paraphernalia you've ever seen. While it might have been a little un-cultured of us to eat a Texas steakhouse while in Sweden, we were totally up for it (especially Nikki, who's from Dallas and sports a necklace of the state of TX with a heart in the middle). We got inside and, to my extreme delight, they were playing country music! We each got a margarita and waited until a table opened up about 45 minutes later. I didn't eat anything too extremely Texan, I contemplated getting a steak but ended up getting loaded nachos. They were pretty good...nothing to write home about, but definitely a small taste of home :)