Day 14, Jan 14th

It was freezing and winding out today and, of course, icy as usual. We went to Wadkoping (pronounced wod-shopping), which is an open-air museum in Orebro by the River Svartan. It is compromised of original buildings from the 17^th and 18^th centuries. The buildings house craft places and shops.

First we went to a woodshop that made all the produces by hand using the old techniques. Aunt Eva even got to try it herself! The man who taught us knew no English, but Aunt Eva translated for us!

Then we went to a silversmith that made jewelry and the Kings Cottage where King Karl IX stayed.

We also visited the School Museum (Skolmuseet) with showed a 1920s one-room schoolhouse.

Then we went to fika with Aunt Eva at this amazing Italian place called Rosalie’s Deli. All three of us had great chicken alfreado!

From the restaurant Aunt Eva dropped us off at the local hospital. It was so different than American hospitals that at first I didn’t even believe it was a hospital! I turned out to be really amazing though. It was like 10 times quieter AND cleaner. In the lobby there was a hairdresser for the patients and a really nice restaurant. We walked all over the first building (we didn’t realize there were multiple buildings connected by walkways, prolly because we couldn’t read any of the signs) and ended up in what we think was the psych ward. All the doors to the patient rooms had big red signs and locks with keypads. It was pretty scary… we kept circling back to it by accident too! After that we took the bus back to Aunt Eva’s!