norway day 10

Wednesday was the longest day of the year. Here in Norway, they hold a festival to celebrate the day. So we went back to Bygdoy to see it at the Folk Museum. Unfortunately, we arrived about 3 hours too early for the festival. And since we had already walk 2 miles to get there, and we didn't want to walk another 2 miles home, wait for 3 hours and walk the 2 miles back, we decided to just make the best of the situation and see the museum early. It is kind of a living history type museum with lots of hands on activities to show you how life was like in Norway in the past few hundred years.

The kids tried out the stilts by the barn. Isaac has a pair just like these that he made at home. So he was a pro. The others got the hang of it eventually.

Hazel is sitting in front of the doll's house. It looked like a play house, but I think it probably could have been a regular house. People used to be very small here I think.

I loved the really big tables most of these houses had.

We went for a cart and buggy ride.


I also liked the sod-roofed houses.

There was some traditional dancing in the little village square.

The kids enjoyed climbing around near all the buildings. Most of the buildings are built fairly high off the ground. I'm assuming it is because of the deep snow.

Other highlights included the lollipops at the grocery store (there was a rhubarb flavored one!), playing in the gardens, seeing a visitor get dressed up in 17th centery garb that took 20 minutes to put on her, the playground, and the holiday bread that a woman cooked in a fireplace for us.

Right as we were finishing, the traditionally dressed performers started arriving. But the kids and I were pooped. So we just walked back home.