Jul & Aftonjuldag

Julmust- Swedish Christmas soda

We've been having a jette bro time here in Sverige. For Christmas Eve dinner Thea made Swedish meatballs from scratch. They were so tasty! And we drank lots of julmust- which is this funny Christmas soda. For Christmas morning we had stockings, that were wool socks stuffed with random things we found around the room and cookie treats. And then we did presents before kanelbulle. 

God Jul cookies in our stockings

Our stockings, "tree" and presents

Thea and Al brought branches in to be our "tree" in the corner. The presents went on the Christmas shelf. Then Thea made us homemade kanelbulle!

Fresh Kanelbulle!

Thea making kanelbulle

And since Christmas, we've been sledding almost every day and walking around in the snow. We walked to the viking mounds in Gamla Uppsala and sledded down those. They were huge! And it had been raining all day so we were going entirely too fast down the slick hills.

The viking mounds at Gamla Uppsala in the snow

The surrounding countryside 

Al and Thea- getting ready to sled down the hill

Fun Christmas friends!

And today we all went walking over to another viking mound closer to Flogsta, where Thea lives. It was beautiful and the sun was out making the snow sparkle.

The sun came out!

The Kung Björn viking mound in the distance

Sheep, red barn, and the snow

The mini Swedish village near the mound

Beautiful snow

Bundled up!