Skansen open air museum

Skansen is like colonial Williamsburg in the states.   Old houses and people dressed in period clothes who can tell you a historically accurate story about the times associated with each building.  They also have nordic animals in a small zoo.  Before we wandered around we had lunch.  We had traditional Swedish fare, meatballs, cheese pie, and some sort of hash.  Kate got stung by a bee under her arm as soon as they got there, but the swelling and discomfort was not too bad.  Leslie and I had visited here 17 years ago so it was fun to compare how we remembered things to how they actually are.  We saw the Kinder train and there were adults riding on it this time.  We visited a school house, a servants house, and a farmhouse where the woman was dying wool.

Flying the flag high

Servant woman

The steeple of a church that burned down. Once the church was gone they sent the steeple to Skansen. Due to the threat of fire they discontinued wooden steeples in the 1800s

The geese all had babies following them 

The stove in the schoolhouse.  Extra area to radiate the heat into the room. 

The kids used a rabbits foot as an eraser

Old farmhouse with mechanical flue on the chimney 

The sweetest gal on her anniversary 

A cool way to stack wood

Discussing the different methods to obtain these colors.  Copper pot vs iron pot.  Rhubarb vs birch.

1870's wooden chest

Very old clock and plates on the wall

Of course flowers everywhere

A wooden trough leading to a grindstone mill

Traditional red siding

Beware the Bees