Skansen photo post

These are photos from the day we went to Skansen, a zoo that also has a bunch of old houses.


Stairway in Jox's house. The house used to be super small and Jox's parents have expanded it and fixed it up a lot.


Pajama drawstring pants I bought.



Dining room window.


This is the biggest hunk of cheese I've ever seen! To the right of it is pomegranate juice.


Dining room window.


Dining room light.



The milk cartons have a lot of stuff on them, like jokes, recipes, the meanings of obscure/new words...


At Skansen with the Christmas market, there was this little tram thing that you could ride. We didn't go in it though.


"The Santa happy and nice fetches everything.
Eve for everything
Eve for Christmas baking"
Eve is apparently that product down below, maybe it's flour?


Some kind of tobacco machine in the middle of the street, I don't know if it actually had anything in it or was just for decoration.


"Open"



"The Big Swing's Christmas food"


"Stockholm's City Savings Bank"


(to the left) "Turkey"
"Spices"
(on the spice jar) "Wormwood"


More Christmas goats.


"Christmas presents"


Two ladies that I bought something from, wearing traditional clothes.


Sign on one of the booths.


"Waffles with jam and cream"


Marzipan pigs are pigs made out of marzipan and they dip half of them in chocolate. The pigs are traditional for some reason, but we saw a lot of other figures too.


I bought the blue and white one with swirls on it for my great-grandparents. You fill these with candy or nuts and hang them on the Christmas tree. You can still see these in a lot of shops in both Sweden and Iceland. The ones at this stall were based on old designs and use fabrics and ribbons that are from around the same era.


"Reindeer meat
Salted, dried and smoked lamb meat" (all-in-one smoked, dried, and salted - not separate types)


"Christmas presents"


Sugar-roasted, pan-fried almonds. I really love these, they have them in Iceland too. I want to learn how to make them.




Dried reindeer meat stall. This lady is wearing Sami (Lapp) clothing, which is like the clothing of "native" Swedes/Norwegians/Finns and in some parts, Russians. Sami were like nomadic people who herded reindeer and followed the reindeer as they migrated but now their population is small and the people who speak the Sami languages are even smaller than that, in part because the government makes it really hard to learn Sami languages and even harder to be officially recognized as Sami (you have to fulfill a lot of requirements to be recognized as Sami, such as speaking Sami and owning reindeer).


"Christmas's pantry"


"Coffee
Glögg
Buns"


"Cheese lottery". I won a mini cheese grater here.
Everyone has this kind of "babywagon", or baby carriage in both Iceland and Sweden. It looks pretty old-fashioned to me, but I like them.


"Sausage/hotdog lottery"


"Food basket lottery"


You could pay a little and ride in this horse carriage around the zoo.


Both Sweden and Iceland used to have a lot of turf-roof houses.


These "Wild Chips" are made of various kinds of meat like horse and reindeer I think, I sent a packet to a couple of you guys. I think they taste good but I didn't like the dried reindeer meat that I also sent to a couple of you. On top of the brown bag is sugar-roasted almonds.


This is the stuff I bought at the Christmas market. There's some matchbooks with blue-tipped matches, a metal drum ornament that you can open, a paper book ornament that you can open, the mini cheese grater I won... the brown thing in a long, rectangular box is something I sent to my great-grandparents along with the candy/nuts cone. It's a Christmas tree decoration that looks like the candy they used to wrap, the fabric is from around the same era as the design is and it's all recycled stuff in that way.


Jox's family had a cow sandwich griller! No, we didn't buy this.