So yesterday we boarded a plane in
I finally got to meet William’s father Yon and his sister Emma. When I took the picture his other sister and her baby had not arrived so this is what I have. As you can see the wet eyes on Yon. He told me to quit taking William away to
Before dinner we went to Old Town Luleå. It was so great, so old and so much history! These are summer cabins. Unfortunately the weather was very cold and boring yesterday so the pictures don’t capture the true essence of the place. These cabins are so small and cute!
This building was the old
There was the most amazing old church! It was closed because it was a “red day” in
I can’t get over how old everything is! This was the entrance to the church courtyard. It was so beautiful.
Here is the whole entrance to the church!
On the grounds there was a tomb house or whatever you call it for a famous knight of
The writing at the top is written in old Swedish writing from what Yan, was telling me.
I just had to show you how amazingly huge the doors were to the church. I couldn’t believe it.
Same with the windows! Can you believe back in the 1700’s that they could build something so huge?!
Here is pictures of the church
A old mile marker…
Amanda you’ll LOVE this building…
The town/city is all built around the church… religion was very important to the Swede’s back in the day and so everything was centered around the religion.
We went out to a fancy, very Swedish dinner. It totally beat TGI Fridays, something I promise none of you have had before. We went out for Chinese food! Talk about some sheer disappointment. Maybe it is a good thing we have not gone to get Swedish food because I am not excited for reindeer meat. Today William cut me a piece of Swedish reindeer jerky, let me tell you, it is NOT jerky if when you cut a piece, blood is on the cutting board!!! At the Chinese restaurant, I could not figure out how you ordered your Chinese food so I just opted for pizza. Now let me tell you, the “
After dinner and meeting more of the Winsa family we drove the 2 ½ hour drive to Gellivåre. Oh this town is so small but so beautiful!!! The next day we went exploring...
Check out this local bank…
I can not exactly remember what this painting was about but it was pretty cool, it was the Laplandish circle of life…
After it stopped snowing, yes SNOWING, William told me I had to try some Swedish ice cream. This stuff was AWESOME and whatever the candy was on my cone was awesome!!!
We walked all around downtown Gellivåre which is pretty cool. I am starting to really fall in love with the old churches here. This is all white and really pretty. I uploaded it sideways because when you put it right side up the church shrinks a bit and doesn't look as grand...
Further down the road along the river was what was called the 10 cent church. It was for beggars and the homeless to come and worship!
I gotta tell you that there is the coolest door ever in Williams home that goes from the entry way into the family room!
Haha also there are two really weird things about the bathrooms in
1.) you have to PAY to use the toilets in public!!!!!!!!! Like there is a man who stands there and takes your money and pushes a button to let you in. WRONG!!!! So WRONG!!!
2.) There is no handle you use to flush the toilet. It took me a good minute in the bathroom to figure out how to flush the dang toilets, then finally I figured it out…
Lucky for you my battery finally died on my camera so we went home! I bought a brand new camera before we left
Well I hope you all are having fun. Don’t know who is reading this but if you do leave me a comment and let me know what you think!
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2 comments:
I am checking your blog like 3 times a day to see your next adventures! Sweden is awesome!!
Amelia, I love this. How lucky to have those who actually live there show you everything. So much better than a touristy tour! Keep up the blog. We are loving it!
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