"Normal" Stockholm Weekend

Today started off with Klara making Swedish pancakes for the both of us. Her mom, Monica, mentioned that she had made some lingonberry sauce. I asked "This morning?" and she replied "Oh, yeah, I was just out picking lingonberries and making jam." Her husband Anders continued, "Just a normal Swedish morning." They were both joking with me of course.


We then took the subway, which was actually above ground the whole time, to her cousin's birthday party. Her cousin is this pretty successful performance artist. Check out his website. The party was at his studio and was filled with all the crazy stuff he uses in his shows. We talked about art and the advantages and disadvantages of doing performance art versus photography. One of the coolest things I saw was this antique vampire hunting kit, but he had plenty of other crazy things.

It was pretty funny because Klara has been trying to help me have an authentic Swedish experience and here we were at a normal family gathering, but in one of the most unique and weirdest places I have ever been. I knew it was going to be a "different" kind of place when we walked up to the terrace and there was a wild boar pelt hanging over the railing, and from there things only got more strange and exotic. It was amazing.

Me and the polar bear head that guards the door, wearing a top hat and some kind of complicated spectacles.

We left the party and took the subway back to the city center. After a couple hours of subway riding and walking all over the city we made it back to Farsta and will continue the night recuperating by watching Swedish movies!