Halloween preparations

Today Mats bought a pumpkin at the store, so after dinner I taught them all how to carve it! They were pretty grossed out by the pumpkin guts, so they made me do that part, but then I helped Oliver draw on the eyes and Theodor draw on the nose and mouth and then cut it out for them. They were thrilled when it was done. They ran into their rooms and put on their costumes then turned out all the lights so the pumpkin would glow. Then I baked the pumpkin seeds with salt and they turned out delicious.

Halloween has really only been celebrated here for about the past 5 years, so the whole carving-pumpkins thing was new to my family. I'm glad I got to help them start a new tradition!



I never really updated much on my family beeing here, but it was great! We saw the Vasa (an 17th century swedish war ship that sunk minutes into its maiden voyage, but was taken out of the Baltic Sea in the 1960s and put in a museum), had many delicious dinners at Orwar and Marie's house, went to Skansen (an outdoor Scandinavian museum), had pancakes and pea soup (a Thursday tradition in Sweden) with my host family, and went on an archepelago tour that ended in the town of Vaxholm, where we got to do some shopping. Everything was so fun!