Walpurgis Night and Uppsala

Sorry for so many pictures on all of my posts, we just keep very busy!

Doing some artwork at the Kulturhuset Pippi Longstocking
We have a season pass to Junibacken so we have been there a few times.
Billy took Kens to see Monsters vs. Aliens. The only English one they had was at 9 pm so they didn't get home until 11 pm. Kens had so much fun, she was a little loony when she got home, it was a late night for her. These are their 3D glasses. Kens says they make her look "stylish". I don't know how she could see out of hers.
Where's Cade?!
We love ICE CREAM!! If I had a picture for every time we got ice cream out here, you would be amazed. They have ice cream stands everywhere and we sure do love it.
First day of shorts, Wahoo!
Feeding the ducks, we do that a lot here. Kens wants all the ducks to get food so that they aren't hungry.
Miss-matched gloves. Both of the kids are missing one glove now, it is a good thing that it is warming up.
Taking a break from walking. Kens has her walking stick(that has to go everywhere with us) and her handful of flowers. She picks flowers any time we are out.
She fell down and hurt her knee. She wanted to show the birds her knee but got very sad because they kept running away.
Kens gave us a good laugh, as she was falling before she even hit the ground and started crying, she said "oh no, not again". She is getting use to falling and I think she gets sick of it. We could not stop laughing.
We toured the Royal Palace. You can't take picutres inside, but it was really neat.
I took the kids to the Aquirum, if you can call it that. I think that going to the Rainforest cafe is just about as exciting as this was. Kenslee was so excited and did have fun. We were only there for an hour and that was with a lot of looking at the toys and counting the fish. We will have to do a trip to Sea World when we get back home.



Kenslee has wanted to have a picnic. So we decided to do one inside because it isn't warm enough
outside yet.
Nordiska Museet
Skansen, the world's first open-air museum. This is such a fun place, we got season passes and we will make good use out of them.
You can't see it but there is a reindeer behind Kens eating.
Moose

Chasing a rooster and chickens

Mohawk
I think he needs a haircut soon!
So excited about her new goggles and floaty .
In his new swim hat

Just a cute picture
Thursday night we kept the kids up late so that we could go and celebrate with the Swedes. April 30th is Walpurgis Night, it is a celebration of springtime. They have a choir sing for a while and then they listen to some author give a speech. Then it is time to light the huge bonfire. The next day everything is dead, everything is closed and nobody is out. This weekend is known as the biggest weekend for drinking...bottoms up!

This is the huge pile of wood for the bonfire.
The choir singing behind us.
Sleeping through the celebration
It was huge!!
Yeah for springtime! It is still only in the 50's. I am starting to miss the warm weather in Texas right about now. It will be nice in a couple of months, maybe 65 degrees.

Since Billy didn't have to work on Friday we decided to head north to see a different city. We went up to Uppsala, it was a pretty little town. We went swimming the first day and then did some sight seeing the next. Fun times!!

Cade's first time swimming. He seemed to like it, he was mostly watching Kens go crazy.


You always need a big scoop of ice cream after a long day of swimming!
Worn out!! She fell asleep on our way to dinner and slept through most of it. We tried to wake her up so that she could eat, but she wasn't very interested. She just wanted sleep.
Uppsala
Uppsala had the first University in Scandinavia, 1477.
This is the largest cathedral in the Nordic region.
390 ft high twin spires
Vasa castle
Royal burial mounds in Gamla (old) Uppsala. These have been here for 1,500 years