In the Country

Last weekend Micke and I joined his parents for a relaxing weekend at their summer house in Los, a small town 4 hours NW of Stockholm.  The name of the town was derived from the word lodjur (lynx) since there were and still are apparently lynx in that area.

Total permanent population = 387 people

Their house is like many Swedish country houses with a dark red wooden frame and white trim.  The houses are so adorable, I can't stop staring.

In the summer without so much snow, a Swedish house might look more like this: Cute House

The house is so cozy inside as well.  Here is Micke tucked into his snoopy sheets.  Haha! Look how happy he is!

Since there is not much to do, which is the beauty of the place, we filled our days with watching birds outside the kitchen window, snowshoeing, walking to the town church (which was closed on a Sunday morning since the priest apparently has to rotate through other towns), snowmobiling, eating sausages and ham, and napping.  It was lovely.

The town of Los:

Many of the houses have the symbol of a goat on them 

Here I am looking like an eskimo before we went snowmobiling.  I used to think those Russian hats were ridiculous, but they are WARM!  And you can see Ubbe (Micke's dad) cruising by on the '88 snowmobile!  He's by the trees in the top photo.