Midsummer

We celebrated midsummer Friday. The day started out with my dad, Mike and Michael went out to pick flowers for the midsummer pole and mom and I made the strawberry cake. We all met up at Berglunds where the guys made and decorated the midsummer pole and drank beer. Back home to get dressed for success and then back to Berglunds again for the party. Cake, kubb, beer and drinks in the sun.
Dinner was as always awesome; like 5 different kinds of herring, baby hot dogs, meatballs, sour cream, chive, vegetables, salmon, eggs, bread, cheese, crackers, melon and grapes.. and I probably forgot something. Man it's good stuff! We did some singing and drank some schnapps.

The finished midsummer pole

The strawberry cake

Mike and Michael decorating the midsummer pole

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Cat

The royal wedding

The Crown princess of Sweden got married yesterday. It was a really nice wedding. The whole thing was sent on TV =)

It's the first time in history that a crown princess in Sweden is getting married. When our princess was born they changed the law from the first born boy to the first born child is going to be the heir to the throne.


This is after they got out from the church and were riding around Stockholm!

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Cat

Ven

Ven is an island between Sweden and Denmark. It have existed since 4500 BC and there have been different kind of buildings since the stone age. The island belonged to Denmark a long time and it was during that period that Tycho Brahe had built his castle and research Uraniborg. He built the first observatory in Europe. The island became Swedish in the 1600s.

Mike, Rich and I went to Ven yesterday (Saturday) to bike around. We took the boat from Landskrona over to the island and rented bikes there. We biked around the whole island and just had fun. We brought our own lunch and stopped to eat it in one of the small harbors. We were lucky with the weather. Sunny and 20C. Only bad thing is that it was very windy on one side of the island. It was a very fun day =)

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Cat

BBQ on the beach

We had a BBQ on the beach Saturday night. Me and Mike went down to the beach at 6 pm and then the rest started coming a little after 6.30 pm. Everybody brought down what they were going to eat and Mike and I made sausages, pepper and onions. Yum! Then we made smores for dessert. Josefin had her Kubb game with her so we played a round of that. We called it a night when we ran out of stuff to burn and it started to get cold a little after 11 pm.


It was Sweden's National Day Sunday. We don't celebrate it a lot. The King held a speech and people had their flags up in the back yard. We celebrated with ribs and pecan pie =)

xoxo
Cat

(I stole the pictures from Josefin, thank you =) and for even more pictures http://larssonsofia.blogg.se/ )