In mid June we drove to San Diego to attend a Swedish Midsummer fest held at Balboa Park.

 We arrived early so we decided to browse around in the park first to enjoy the green scenerey and being able to be outside with out suffering heat stroke. While walking around in the park we met a lady and her parrot, she asked if Ella wanted to hold her and so she did. I think that the pictures will speak for themselves.

Denis and Ella enjoyed looking at the fountain and trowing pennies in it. With the stroller we couldn’t get to close to the water so we enjoyed it from a distance.

At two that afternoon we walk over to the House of Sweden  – http://www.sdhpr.org/Countries/Sweden.html

and enjoyed some Swedish små kakor (cookies) and enjoying the midsummer celebration, first on stage with choirs and gammel dans – after that it was time for the midsummer pole dance – it was a lot of fun and unlike Sweden we where guarantieed good (to hot for dancing) weather but still it was almost like home…!!