Manon was kind enough to take us on a drive, after another delicious lunch at Öfre Slotts! So out we went under another grey sky, heading toward Viks Slott for an unexpected second visit.
My future home:
The two greatest people on the planet:
Later that night, while the present 2/5 Sando went to a (late) Luciadag concert, I went with Manon and Kyle to a goodbye party that the Japanese girls (L-R, Hiroka, Kino, Mari) were hosting. It was really sweet, an enormous amount of home-made Japanese food and desert.
Öfre Slotts Cafe, fika place of my idolatry.
So, the next day Mother and Emma decided to stay in Uppsala and we went to Naturreservat (Erik's Barrow). There was so much frost that day and it covered everything up to the trees. Very beautiful. I was glad that the sun finally decided to make it's token weekly appearance so that my family got to see Sweden in the sun.
On Erik's Barrow, we met a small old man pacing the top of the barrow in a circle. As soon as we hit the top, he steered right for us and began to ramble in Swedish about the history of the tomb. Apparently, it was built in the bronze age, roughly 1000-1500 years before the Gamla Uppsala mounds, and there was an excavation done on the mound in 1902 (? maybe...) and they found a lot of bronze objects and a sword. So, below, mother Olsen and Emma with Erikshög in the background: (I believe you can even see the old man on the top!)
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