Well, It was April 30th…and that means it was time for valborgsmassoafton here in Sweden. Basically it is a community bonfire with games, hotdogs and “fika”. Oh yeah, and singing, they love to sing over here! Anyway, we went with some friends from our church to a place about 20 miles outside of Jönköping.
Our first order of business (after a fika) was to participate in a “tipsrunda.” Basically, it is a trivia contest + nature walk. Who knew those 2 things could go together?
So, attached to that fence is a paper with a question on it, then we write the answer on our score card and continue down the path. Anyway, I am spending all this time describing this to you so I can brag that we WON! 3 of us got the highscore and walked away with the prizes!
Here we are showing off our loot!
If you look closely you can see another bonfire across the lake…
Here is ours.
Not the biggest…but we did have fireworks!
swedenusa said,
May 1, 2007 at 4:22 am
Here you go Em…now you can look at something nicer than a picture of a greesy pizzabox.
Shie said,
May 1, 2007 at 5:06 am
Of course you won the trivia contest, Mir. You are so good at things like that! Jonas did make us do contest like that at our church retreat, people here were pretty surprised
I wish I was there to celebrate. It looks beautiful and so much fun.
Mir said,
May 1, 2007 at 5:14 am
Thanks for the vote of confidence but I think this was all thanks to Sam and Agneta. One question was… what number in the order of books in the Bible is Psalms… then came something like what book comes 21 or something like that… Sam just started naming them all off in order as we counted. Then there was the one where soccer world cup will be held 2012… Agneta had that one. We had a good time though it was cold!
Johanna said,
May 1, 2007 at 1:24 pm
The tradition with “Valborgsmässoafton” has a very interesting story behind it. It’s far from just a simple community bonfire! I would like to encourage you to do some googling about this! It’s sort of fascinating!
My son, Tobias is at this very moment whining about more tv. His whining voice is REALLY irritating… Gotta go deal with this…
Em said,
May 2, 2007 at 12:38 am
looks nice…..and congrats!