Sunrise in Sweden: The Destroying of Christmas

Yes that's right, the Christmas season has come and gone in Sweden too. :( And celebrating at every chance they get, Swedes have an actual day to throw out the christmas tree, smash ginger bread houses, and take down the other christmas decorations.

The day that this all happens is 20 days after christmas day (January 13th/ Tjugondag Knut) but seeing as that is a monday, many families choose to carry out this "celebration" the weekend before or after. So yes this post is a little late but nonetheless, it is a post.

The first part of Tjugondag Knut was julgranplundring (direct translation: christmas tree plundering). But before we could take out the tree we danced around it singing christmas songs (mostly children's songs). Lukily I was able to sing along with some of the songs because I got a children's christmas carol book for christmas and have been studying :) We held hands and sang, danced, jumped, stomped, fell, rolled, and of course laughed. During the final song we sang we held hands making a train and skipped through the enitre house (even the bathrooms). Then it was time to strip the tree and throw it out the back door (literally!).

Our beautiful gingerbread houses that we made, what seems like ages ago, had to go. But they went in
style - well if you can consider being smashed by a hammer stylish...