Picnic with Ducks

As you will see in the picture, we had a night where we had a picnic dinner at the park and we were swarmed by ducks. It was fun and cute until we seriously couldn't eat because they were following us. That all quickly changed as the kids at the park saw the ducks out and promptly chased them around the park. Needless to say, the ducks were preoccupied with keeping all of their feathers and forgot about our dinner. Nice! I've never been big on eating outside until now. There's always bugs and bees and it's hot etc, etc. But here, yes there's bug and bees, but they aren't quite as bad and it just isn't ever hot so it's so enjoyable to lay under a tree and eat lunch or dinner and just enjoy the surroundings.

Skansen

This last week, Johnny decided to take off Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from work. There has been no one in the office lately since everyone (like seriously, everyone) is on vacation. He can't do a lot of his work since there is no one there to work with, so we figured we would do some things as a family for a few days. We went to Skansen in Stockholm on Wednesday. It was so fun! It's like a cross between a zoo and a history museum. There is a small aquarium, elk, reindeer, birds, lemurs, etc and also a bunch of buildings that they moved there many years ago from the 1600's. Johnny got a pretzel that was baked in an oven used in the 16-17th century, we walked cobbled stone streets, looked inside houses and barns, rode carnival rides, and enjoyed the beautiful view of Stockholm from up high. One of the things we thought were so cool were the mile markers (these were in both Vallby and Skansen) I included a picture of the sign that explains them. A Swedish mile is equal to about 10 km. and these were put up to tell people how far until the next inn. It's just crazy to see these things dated to about the time the pilgrims were coming to America. We think that was so long ago and Europe has stuff SOO much older. It's neat to see it up close.