Viking in pajamas

Fiona Friday..   Picked her up from school today (Xmas vacation started 1 hour early!)  all the kids and teachers were in their pajamas… -it’s 34 degrees out.    Decided we’d take her to the Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard today —not sure we’ve ever been there with her… so we did the walk thru of the immigrants leaving Scandinavia by boat and settling in this country—all the shops and streets— it’s pretty well done.  A good photo show of early Seattle (no interest there so that was a quickie)… and since we were in Scandinavian Ballard we took her to the Scandinavian bakery to pick up the xmas cardamon coffee cakes (that I don’t feel like making) and then the Scandinavian shop for the herrings and swedish cheese and pepakaka cookies and lingonberries and candles etc for Christmas…Lots of viking things to talk about. !!  She could hardly wait to get home to write a story about the vikings.  She talked us into a very cute Stuffie Swedish Viking from the museum for her xmas present —it’s the first thing wrapped and under the tree, along with a swedish flag.  I think she named him  “Gunnar” out of many viking name suggestions from us.    The many page illustrated story (with ideas from a book we had read about vikings)  of the "Vicin" (Viking) was basically about 2 children Bili and Lola who had a very silly stepmother and bossy stepsister (who only cared about clothes and nail polish) they wanted to get away from so they became vikings (changed into Freya and Oskar) and went on a viking ship (modeled after the one outside the museum but with a strangely T-Rex style head instead of the usual dragon, and named “Rexe” -- to a strange made up land where they used their sword and axes to cut up people.  11 years later they were still doing those games and then in 1 more day they each had a family with kids.   the End.   Instead of helping with the pancakes, she wanted to start another story book —titled “Vicin 2…. the Farm.”  (this will be about those vikings now with families doing farming on the prairies.)   whew.    Pretty fun.   But H and I are exhausted and I’d edit this way down but I’m too tired……..so thanks for persevering if you got this far....

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