Valborg

Today, April 30th is what it's called Valborg in Swedish.

It's the day to celebrate the arrival of the spring.

It seems like this day is more to do with religion in other European countries though.

Swedish tradition on this day is to have bonfires 

and you can find public events in big parks with bonfires.

I actually have never been to one because I always worked on April 30th.

I got off work early today so Kaiya and I went to one of events that's held in the nearest park.

.....guess what!? I totally forgot that events were not Kaiya's favorite things.

Oh yes, she refused to go when we were close to enough to hear a lot of people at the site.

She got soooo scared....

It took such a long time to come this close in the photo.

Today we weren't with daddy who always carried her around when she got scared.

So we just sit there and calmed her down.

今日４月３０日は　Valborg（ヴァルボーリ）という春の行事がある日

他のヨーロッパの国では宗教的なイベントらしいけど

スウェーデンでは　春の訪れを祝う行事みたい

大きなかがり火を焚くのがスウェーデンの伝統

大きめな公園などでイベントがひらかれるらしいんだけど

こっちに来てからいっつも仕事だったから　一回も行ったことなかったんだよねぇ〜

今日は早上がりだったから　Kaiya連れて家から一番近くのイベント会場へ

・・・そうだ！イベント嫌いなKaiyaだったぁ〜

ということで　めちゃめちゃビビっちゃって　ここまでくるのにすっごく時間かかったぁ

今日はいつもビビったときに抱っこしてくれるダディがいないからな

暫くここで落ち着こう

At last, we reached the fire.

Those people who were the closest to the fire were wearing costumes

...hmm, I wonder what that meant...

やっとこさ　火の近くにこれたぁ〜

火の周りにコスプレ？してる人がいるぅ

バイキング的なナイト的な・・・なんなんだろぉ

There were venders and I was hungry...

I wanted to look around but Kaiya couldn't be there any more seconds...

We headed back home right a way...

出店も出てたけど　もうKaiyaさん限界　見て回らせてくれない

お腹空いてたけど　結局そのまま家へもどりましたぁ〜(^^;)

Well, it's nice to put up photos of Kaiya not being scared :p

I had to work double shifts today.

I went to work as usual time in the morning.

Then I came home in the afternoon to take a walk with Kaiya....we did a one-hour walk.

After that I went back to work again.

So Kaiya was alone for longer than usual today:(

When we went for a walk in the afternoon,

it was blowing sooooooooo much.

There was this one time I couldn't even go forward because the wind was too strong!

I thought Kaiya was gonna pushed back with the wind 

but she was walking better than mommy!! :)

とまぁ　本日のビビってない時のKaiya(^^)

今日は　ダブルシフトだったから

いつものように朝仕事行って

午後一回帰ってきて一時間くらい散歩行って　また仕事にもどったので

Kaiyaさんいつも以上にお留守番が長かった日

合間の散歩の時は風がものすごく強くて　前に進むのが大変だったよぉ〜

Kaiyaも目を細めてがんばって歩いたねぇ！！