Lucia and a magical Sunday!

Happy Lucia everyone! Now the countdown for Christmas begins with the girl who comes with candles in her hair to bring light to our darkness ;)
I took my friends, Kadda, Ramona, Emilie and Anna to the Swedish Cultural Center to show them how we celebrate Lucia in Sweden. It was students from the Scandinavia department at the University of Washington that performed the traditional Lucia "train" and they did a god job. Well, the most of them were Americans and didn't really get the right pronunciation but it was beautiful anyway. There was one thing that they did different. They had a Gingerbread man that danced around and when they singed the Gingerbread song, one was beat boxing and they all raped the song. That was not traditionally but cool ;)
Before them there was an orchestra that played Swedish folkmusic and also a men and women choirs that sang some Christmas carols. They were very old and the songs didn't sound that good but they were really cute. I was thinking of joining them and lower the middle age a lot ;)
After the performances there was Coffee and the traditional Lucia bun: Lussekatt. It's flavoured with saffron and is really good. My friends liked them although they were a bit dry ;)
We were all in a singing mood when we left the place and headed for the Space Center where they had a winterfest with nice decorations, ice skating and carousels. The first thing we had to do was to help a little boy to find his mum and dad. He sat just inside the entrance and was crying. And as the Super au pairs we are we couldn't just leave him. We found a guard and took him to a office where his dad was waiting. The dad didn't look very concerned, maybe the boy use to do this. But we felt good anyway ;)
We went to the ice skating place and there were just an performance from the Seattle Ice Theater. Really good girls that danced on the ice to the music from the Nutcracker (I think ;)) They were awesome and after that we didn't feel like going on the ice and embarrassed ourselves ;) And it was a small ice and a lot of people. Instead we went on the carousel that was located just outside. It was one of the old ones that just goes round and U sit on a horse or in a wagon. We all took horses and it was so silly but so much fun! We were really goofy and I had a really good time. We also ate there and I finally had some Kebab! i love that and it was really good but nothing can beat the Kebab from "Gatukoket" back in my hometown ;) Jummie ;)
When had had enough of the winterfest and everyone was freezing, we went back to Redmond and rented a movie and went home to Ramona's place. Her host parents are still in India so she is home alone for a whole week more.
We saw the movie "Religulous" Was like a documentary about a guy who wanted to understand religion. He went to all different countries and interviewed people who were just crazy and tried to understand religion. Not really my kind of movie but it was a good discussion afterwards. Sometimes U really have to discuss these kind of questions cause maybe some day someone ask u a question about religion.

Today's gift in the advent calender was teaching!

Miss U all!
Love Sandra