Faithyduck's Blog: June 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009

Midsummer 2009

We celebrated Midsummer this year with Anders and Lena. They have an outdoor party room where we ate and took shelter from the rain.

The guy standing up in this photo baked two loaves of bread and three cakes for the party (and they were GOOD) - then he helped Lena with the dishes afterwards!

Midsummer 2009

One of Anders' friends brought 3 antique mopeds, so it was necessary that all the guys take a turn around the yard with them. Anders on the left and Fredrik on the right.

Midsummer 2009

It was raining, of course - typical Swedish Midsummer. We even got a bit of hail!

Midsummer 2009

Getting ready to eat. From the left: Anders, Daniel, Mats, and I don't remember the name of the last guy in this photo.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Alison's graduation Smorgastårta

After Alison rode the float around town a few times, we picked her up and drove home for a family party. Ingrid made two delicious 'smorgåstorta's (sandwich cakes) the one on the left was roast beef and the one on the right was shrimp.

Alison's graduation 'parade'

In Helsingborg, all the schools hold their graduation on the same day. After the students finish with the ceremony in the school, they meet up in a large open area at the top of a hill and proceed down to the center of town to get on the floats and make a couple of trips around town getting waved at by everyone. The students are the ones with the white caps that you can see snaking down to the town center. It was raining cats and dogs so everyone had umbrellas and rain ponchos.

Alison's graduation

Here is where the students met up to gather their class together before proceeding down to the float area. They all have on their yellow raincoats. Every graduate has a white hat and holds a poster with their baby picture on it.

Alison's graduation poster

Alison and a classmate showing their baby picture photos. When they came out of the school, they all rushed to their parents and got the things around their neck - most kids had flowers, teddy bears, whistles, and a champagne glass.

Alison's graduation, waiting in the rain

It rained through the entire graduation - not drizzle, hard rain - and it was windy! Inge and Ingrid waited with me for Alison to come out of the school. She was able to find us by the baby picture we held up. When she came out, we hung flowers and teddy bears and things around her neck and she took the poster and ran with the rest of her class to the meeting place, from where they proceeded down to the floats.