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So the other day I went to PIAS, a store on 4th Ave where you can find all kinds of things from Scandinavia, mostly Norway and Sweden. I bought a traditional candle holder that most homes have on display in the windows in Sweden during December.
A lady working in the store told me that there would be a Lucia celebration today at Viking Hall in town. So I went and it was fun. There was glögg!
And risgrynsgröt, one of my favorite foods, it's a rice porridge, served with cinnamon, butter, sugar and milk to your liking.
Then there was a Lucia train, that was really nice. Btw, I was Lucia once, in 6th grade. And then some singing and dancing around the Christmas tree. So nice, but of course it made me miss Sweden even more!!!!

www.piasweaters.com

So it's getting closer to Christmas and I miss Sweden, a lot ! Today, December 13 they are celebrating LUCIA in Sweden, a wonderful tradition. There will be singing, a LUCIA train, lussekatter (LUCIA day marks the opening of the Christmas season in Sweden). Lussekatter are delicious saffron buns made in any number of figures: cats, "S" shapes, or figure eights), glögg (a Swedish drink for a cold winter evening). Glögg is a heated, spicy and sweet wine, a bit like the German Gluchwein, delicious. It is so nice, Christmas-y and yummy and I am not there!!!!
I miss my friends, my real friends. What am I doing here? Seriously. I am sad. Sometimes life sucks. I love Chhaya, she is my angel.
😥

To view LUCIA copy and paste this into your tool bar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0FyZqNp5Q&feature=related
Enjoy!