Friday, 24 June 2005

Day 15: Midsummer's Eve ::

Spent the day at C’s in-laws, about an hour away. Cookies and sparkling wine. Dancing around a maypole (though oddly located outside a church, and with the maypole formed into a cross). Singing cute Swedish songs. Juice, coffee, cookies. Sunny, warm (maybe 75-80 F) and humid. Dinner: several kinds of herring, potatoes, a drinking song, Danish schnapps, northern Swedish beer, more herring, more drinking songs, more schnapps, two kinds of salmon, salad, yet more drinking songs and schnapps. Food, drink and company all great. Swedish history lesson with the help of an historical atlas. Walk down to the sea, view of the bridge connecting Malmö to Copenhagen, Copenhagen barely visible in the distance. Rode with Justin on the most awesome playground ride ever invented—kind of a three-dimensional seesaw, where in addition to moving up and down, the pair of seats also rotates around a pole and can tilt from side to side maybe 20 degrees each way. More coffee, more cookies. It was a good break. Back to the guest house a bit after 11.

Update 17 Jul: pictures