Saturday,19th of March

This weekend we did not go to school as usual instead in the morning we visited Skansen which is the first open museum and zoo in Sweden and is located on the island Djurgarden in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) to show the way of life in different parts of Sweden before the industrial era. On entering the park,there is an Aquarium, the park leads to a children's carousel area and then to the Swedish living part of history buildings and Scandinavian animals. Within houses and farmstead buildings, historical interpreters dressed in period clothing demonstrate and explain to visitors the traditional Swedish activities, such as spinning wool, weaving, pottery, bread- making and crafts. We had a lovely experience all the way through getting a view of all the traditions, cultures and life in Sweden. Later on for lunch we had the traditional swedish lip smacking food- Meat balls with cream sauce and lingonberry jam. We all had a lovely change to the tempting swedish food.

Later on after our tour through most part of Skansen we went to visit the famous national museum that is pretty close to the place we live. Sweden's leading museum of art and design has collections of contemporary paintings, sculptures,drawings and graphics plus applied art and design right up to present day.It was a lovely evening, where we also had a good glance of history and architecture of the museum itself. It truly was a lovely experience for all of us.

This saturday ended on a high note wherein all of us were taken to 'Food Court' and we were given a chance to choose from a variety of cuisines including Swedish, Thai, Mexes.ican, Indian, etc. We all ate to our hearts content and returned back to the ship all tired and sleepy awaiting the next days visit to Gamla Sthan. C ull soon with some further updates.