You might not know this but Friday was National Cinnamon Bun Day. And Swedes take any chance they get to celebrate together. Friday at school we had field day and instead of having tables that have power bars and fruit there were tables with buns and chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, sprinkles, coconut, and anything else you can possibly want or think to put on a cinnamon bun. People were having competitions to see who could decorate the buns the prettiest or who could put the most toppings on.
On Saturday Marie, Mikael, Johan and I went up to Falun to visit Rolf and Kris (my host grandparents) and go mushroom picking!! We drove about half an hour away from their house, parked on the side of road, and just wandered through the forest looking for mushrooms!
There was only one type of mushroom we were looking for; ones with orangey/yellow stems and on the top there is a tinny hole right in the middle where the stem goes down.
Apparently this was the worst year that they have ever gone mushroom picking and we only found a handful or so of them. Because there were so few I got a little sidetrack by the wild blueberries that were everywhere. They made me think of you, dad :)
Saturday evening me and two other exchange students got together at Sierra's house and baked cinnamon buns! We experimented with two different types of buns, both of which turned out wonderfully! The first type was the traditional cinnamon bun way, where you roll the dough and then cut slices to make the bun. The second way we cut strips of the dough and then twisted it and tied it in a knot and tried to make it look pretty :)
We even got to wear cooking aprons!!
The cooks (left to right): Abigail (from Colorado), Anna (Abigail's host sister and the expert cook), Sierra (from Utah), and me
You could say we made a couple cinnamon buns... :)
And yes, some of them were oddly shaped...they had a lot of character.
Once all the buns were made me had dinner with all of our families and ate lots of cinnamon buns. We talked a lot of svengelska but mostly Swedish which was very good even though we excahnge students didn't understand everything. We picked up the main gist of most conversations, but I was absolutely exhausted by the end of the night trying to understand. Sunday was a very laid back day with pretty nice weather too! The colors of the trees are amazing, as green turns to yellow and yellow to a deep red and the deep breathe of crisp Scandinavian autumn air you breathe in every time you exit a building. I can't wait for the first snow to arrive!
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