As we said on our last posting, yesterday was full of interesting things to do.


First, we thought that you might like to see on a map what we have been doing.







On the first map, you can see Stockholm on the lower right of the map. Then northwest of Stockholm about a 3 hour drive is Falun where Caleb and Johanna live and where we have been staying.


Their ward meeting house is about 1/2 hour away in Borlange.

You can also see Lake Siljan that we visited yesterday.

The second map is a blow up of the area around Falun. I have marked similar items on this map including Mora, a town on Lake Siljan where we ate lunch and visited the Zorn museum.

You can also see on the map to the right of Falun the town of Sundborn. That is where the house of Carl and Karin Larsson is located that we previously reported on our visit to it.






The last map shows more detail around Lake Siljan. Our day started out with a trip to the dump which was on the way. Caleb and Johanna had an old TV to get rid of. The dump was interesting. It was kind of like a DI drop of with different with different containers for various categories of junk. The TV went into the electronics bin.

O course, Caleb needed to protect his back so I carried the heavy TV by myself. How long do you think this back stuff will go on? I applogize for no pictures of the dump, but since it wasn't on the top ten things to do in Sweden in our tour book we didn't wasted any mbytes on it.



After the quick stop at the dump, we traveled up to Lake Siljan to a small down where they make the famous Dala horses. On the left is Johanna riding on a large Dala horse.

The Ollsons started making these horses in the early 1920s and everyone feel in love with them because of their bright colors. Everyone wanted one and they eventually became a famous symbol of Sweden.






Not to be out done by Johanna, Charlie and Kent took their turn by the horse.

There were only a few corrals for the horses. Below is one in which Charlie and Johanna enjoyed shopping.



In this picture, you can see the main drag of Dala land. There is one corral on the left front and another in the rear right. Both provided Charlie and Johanna with fun, but I think the one on the right got most of their oats.












One final picture of Dala horse land. It seems one artist mistook this telephone both for a horse and painted it. Charlie wanted to buy this, but I talked her into just taking a picture of it instead.






After looking at the horses, we got back in Johanna's parents car and headed for Mora where the Zorn Museum is. We are really grateful to Johanna's parents for letting Johanna and Caleb borrow their larger car.




Above are pictures of the Zorn Museum and grounds. The museum contains a number of his portraits and landscaped paintings. He was a very famous portrait painter, painting portraits of Swedish Kings and even a few American Presidents. Charlie bought a couple of post cards of his paintings and Johanna bought a larger print of a very cool water landscape.

Across the street was the Mora town center and the main shopping pedestrian street is shown on the right. Best of all, Johanna found the latest book out by Liza Marklund. She writes muder mysteries and comes highly recommend by Johanna.


While in Mora, we grabbed a late lunch. Below is a picture of the calazone that Caleb and Johanna ate as well as the pizza that Charlie and Kent ate. The pizza crust was very very thin and we had to make sure that it just wasn't solidified tomato sauce.
Next, it was back south to Rattvik to view the lake. It was a very pretty sunset.

Johanna also found some stores for Charlie while getting directions for the view site (Did she really need directions or was this just a cover?) The stores had dirt roofs and this one had a pine tree growing on it. I guess this is what happens in Sweden when you don't clean out the rain gutters regularly.
Kent and Caleb really enjoyed the shops!

We had a little time before the evening concert started and we walked around the lake at Rattvik. Here is a picture of a Church boat, which each town had for their residents to go to church. After church, they raced home.

Charlie took this great picture of the sunset.

Unfortunately, it started to rain and we were lucky enough to buy some rain coats at the concert. During the first song, it started to rain very hard, but before a few more songs the rain quit and out came our goodies which we brought to eat at the concert.

The concert was great and the setting was very cool! It was in the bottom of an old lime quarry as shown below. The sound system was great and they finished off the last song with some great fireworks!

With Johanna's excellant driving, we arrived home about midnight just in time to hear the Friday night celebrations in the neighborhood.