Swedes like to celebrate mid-Summer with a party with good friends, good food and wine, singing and schnapps! It was great fun to experience a real midsommar fest, and cool that Ceri and Lisa (our friends from Australia) could be here with us to celebrate as well. The table was stocked with 16 different types of herring, potatoes, eggs, caviar, meatballs, salmon, and quiche.
After several rounds of schnapps and some fantastic Swedish style drinking songs, the Aussies felt obliged to share some Australian songs- and tried out Waltzing Matilda, Tie me Kangaroo Down, and Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Oy Oy Oy- only to realise that we didn't have such a catchy repertoire as the Swedes, and that the typical Aussie bloke having a drink with with mates doesn't usually burst into singing like the Swedes can! The Swedes surprised all the Aussie's later on in the night by leading the way with several Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Oy Oy Oy's which made us all smile :-)
Midsommar table set up in Anders and Malin's backyard in Svarte.
A picture from the internet of a typical Swedish maypole which children usually dance around on Midsommar Eve
Marty and Bec after a round of singing
Anders, Robert, Anna, Johanna and Thom
The kids playing on the big slippery slide :-)
Team Bafana Bafana fighting it out with the old Viking game 'Kub'
Marvellous Malin and Beautiful Blanco
Janice, Ola, Johanna, and Dougie cheering for Midsommar!
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