Today is Midsummer's Eve (Midsommarafton): Raising and dancing around a huge maypole. Eating the year's first potatoes with pickled herring and sour cream. Fresh strawberries as dessert. Girls picking seven (different) flowers to put under the pillow, and then dream about the person to-be...
Midsummer is the most important holiday of the year here in Sweden. What I like most is that the sun is above the horisont for almost 19 hours (Stockholm, Sweden 59° 21' N 18° 4' E). It never gets really dark. Not even when it's raining, which it is right now.
We didn't raise or dance around any maypole. The boys wanted to "transform" one of the little outings to a head-quarter (they play detectives). So that's what we have been doing today: Throwing out old furniture and stuff, cleaning windows, walls and floor. They are all three so excited about having a little house of their own!
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