One of the most popular festival celebration here in Sweden is on 31st April. The main aim on this very special day is to light a bonfires and singing songs of springs. They collected greenery and branches from the wood to start the fire. Somehow I learnt that people said the celebration of Valborg is to celebrate that the Winter's over and summer is just around the corner.I am sure to understand the Nordic cold country who have been living long in the cold dark winter and seeing the sun and light of the day getting longer for each and every day would lighted up the life for each and individual spirits.
Somehow the depth of Valborg is more than that, which I know after and we can find out by just googling "Valborg" and most of the information will be there. That's the beauty of internet. We can find out almost about anything and everything.
Gabriel had never seen Valborg festival celebrated here before. We left Sweden when he was only a year and a half. Now that he is 5, we would like him to see the traditional festive of Valborg celebrated here.
We went to Skansen where the fire is put up. It's kind of big celebration here in Skansen where there are singers who sang when the fire is up and thousands of people gathered around the fire.
I must say that it was still very cold being up there in Skansen. The evening end and we went home.
The next following day, we went to Gröna Lund the amusement park here in Stockholm. I once met a guy name Istvan who came from Hungary. He designed all sorts of amusement park and water theme park in the world. I heard lots of amazing tales stories from his side. He once told me that with his world wide experience and knowledge, the truth is amazingly unbelievable, all amusement park which operates for only 6 months a years has double the profit for those who operated the whole year round.
Seeing the number of people walking into Gröna Lund that day and spending money in every games and rides, I am very certain it is true.
Sadly to say, I somehow did not bring my big camera along with me that day as I am tired of carrying around my big camera bag.
The most important thing is that the kids had fun.
The following day after Gröna Lund which is on Saturday, we went for another picnic around Nacka. I love going for a simple picnic here while in Sweden as there are plenty of beautiful greenery places for families and water is everywhere if we would like to be close to one.
Another thing is, I love BBQ and so does the kids and Peter. So we decided to buy some chicken wings and different types of hot dog, which is very typical swedish who loves their hot dog during BBQ. We bought the "en gång grill" (one time grill) in a supermarket which cost only 29 sek. It works perfectly well. Our chicken smells so nice during the period of grilling and it turns out juicy and nice and so is the thick big fat hot dog.
This is Peter starting the "en gång grill" away from the strong wind. Looks cute and tiny that small one time grill but it works well, right honey?
Actually now that I remembered, few years ago, we once used this "one time grill" in the woods somewhere during the winter. We grilled the usual hotdog. It was meant to be simple, fast and good. We had a good friends from Autralia, Monica and James visiting us and it was the usual winter with white thick snow. We drove on the lake that day when it was icy thick, we grilled when we got hungry and we also does the cross crountry skies on the lake. It was a nice memories to always be remembered.
Anyway as you can see Elrener our eldest daughter is not with us. She hardly comes along with us on such family activities. She is 18 and soon turning 19. She always had her own plan. Over the past 2 days, she slept over at her friend house where they organised their own beach, picnic and BBQ. She's a good decent girl and I never have to have the control freak for her freedom, trust and responsibility.
OK then we are back again to our picnic in Nacka. We played different types of games. We bought that big ball which Gabriel got it from Gröna Lund the day before. It was not that he won that big hugh ball but somehow a young guy came to him while we are having our lunch and just gave him the ball. You should see in his eyes, how excited he get. He was longing to win something big and out of the blue someone just came by pass him while he was sitting down waiting for his korv med bröd and there is a nice young chap who appeared out of a suddened and gave him that big ball. I am sure Gabriel is using the, "
Law of Attraction" without realising it. Well, somehow it works and he got it in the end.
We also played different types of card games and a Boule game. It was a nice day until just an hr before we left, the football kicking games crashed Peter's leg. He felt a big bam and he is off with so much pain.
Though he was crippling today and very cautious of his steps, he also applied plenty of Voltaren. The kind of drug used to relieved the pain.
I have to wrote this down and be remembered. When the crashed bammed on his leg came shortly after, he tried to walk around with crumping and hopping with one leg. He left to toilet shortly after, and came back with a hugh long stick from the tree branch. I was bad...., I laugh and laugh like no body business. He looks like Evan Almighty. Hahahahaha That was a good laugh for the day. Sorry honey, for I laugh like mad but it was just funny seeing you walking with the long thick white stick that you picked up somewhere to support you. While writting this down, I can still sense the tingling laugh inside me imagining you again with that long stick.
Pitied that I was so caught up with the action of the situation, I should have a snap of your photo with that stick which I don't. Probably you felt relieved and lucky that I don't.
Still with that crippy and distorted foot, we manage to go and buy our usual weekly food shopping in ICA mega mart right away where you tried to catch up with us slowly. Then the night came, we went out with your brother to have a dinner and pubbing in a full crowded place where you manage to limp your way around. I am so proud of your strength and braveness with pain which I don't have the slightest close for bearable to such pain like you.
