This morning, I attended the monthly PTA meeting which included a Christmas cookie exchange. Because we had WAY overdone it on the cookies yesterday, I didn't take any cookies home but the socializing was great! Singing is the national past time in Sweden so, there is a choir associated with every group. Our PTA is no exception so the PTA choir sang a couple of beautiful Christmas songs during our little party.
After running some errands, taking Coco for a walk, and doing some things around home, I then headed out to Gamla Stan (old town) to meet a couple of friends for lunch.
It was an overcast and sprinkly day today so never very beautiful but old town is so pretty, that is always feels good to go there. Today, I met two new women. One from France and one from the US but who has worked in Rwanda, Bosnia, Macedonia, etc with orphanages and missions for the past 20 years. She married a Swede somewhere along the way and the foreign service has just made them move back to "home soil" for a few years before assigning them somewhere else. Very, very interesting to talk to!
After lunch and strolling through the Christmas market, we decided to go into the Nobel museum that you can see in the background of the above picture. One of the women had just taken her kids there and said it was very interesting and very well put together. We didn't have time to actually do the museum justice so we just walked in and browsed the gift shop with plans to go back another time. The BIG Nobel dinner is on Dec 10 so everyone is preparing.
We were able to see Obama's chair. Each Nobel laureate signs the bottom of a cafe chair the first time that they actual come into the museum. Obama's is not safe to be where the public can touch it so they have it hanging up at the ceiling.
We also took the time to stop in a famous candy shop where they hand make the traditional and very typical Swedish stick candy, called polkagris. These big sticks are a bit softer than a candy cane and get soft and chewy as you suck on them. They come in a huge assortment of flavors and colors although the pure traditional is peppermint. They are not a Christmas thing, they are sold all over, all of the time and they are yummy!
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