Midsummer's Eve - Celebration at skansen

In the morning, Dom and I went to the bank to try and close our accounts, but it was closed, after that we proceeded to Skansen for midsummer's celebration where we would meet up with Zhiqiang and Samantha. Skansen was already very croweded when we got there and there were loads of people wearing garlands. We then joined a group of people in the garden outside one of the traditional cottages to pick flowers to make a garland with summer flowers for ourselves. You can see people, female and male, young and old, wearing garlands of varying standards. This is the time of the year where even guys wear flowers atop their heads.



Making our garlands



Our first attempt at making garlands.


Trying my luck at lottery


The skansen May pole


The musicians- fiddlers


A traditional dance




Bysons!

After that we dance all sorts of dances and sing songs.