Swedes do snow and ice really well so it comes as no surprise that Swedish sculptors like to use a recyclable, eco-friendly, sustainable medium like ice during Sweden's long winters. Uppsala was hosting their annual ice sculpture festival for one weekend only, so we made the great trek up north to check it out.
Calvin did a funny thing of being super active (and thereby super stressful) on all of our various public transportation transfers and then promptly falling asleep as soon as we arrived in Uppsala. Jon and I were hungry and somewhat tired, so we headed to a cozy cafe, left Calvin asleep in his stroller in front of the window (shock, gasp! whatever, it's totally normal here) and enjoyed a delicious hot lunch with warm drinks. Ahh, it was so relaxing to lounge in overstuffed Victorian-style arm chairs while sipping an oversized mug of hot chocolate.
When we finally got moving again, Calvin was up so we headed to the Ice Sculpture festival in the central park area of Uppsala. Some artists made their sculptures kid-friendly and allowed children to climb, crawl and touch the sculptures. The cutest one was a penguin with space for a child to sit/stand on its feet. Getting Calvin to balance on its feet without slipping off was a challenge but we managed.
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| Cute penguin sculpture |
Of all of the things, Calvin loved sliding down an old rotten tree trunk the best. Surprisingly he zoomed past the really cool tiger sculpture in favor of the large pirate ship on the playground. I've never seen Calvin play so much than he did on that playground. He was all over the place and Jon and I struggled to keep up with him on all of the snow and ice. He spent the majority of his time just giggling/shrieking when he would "hide" from us within the bottom of the pirate ship.
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Hollowed out trees are awesome! |
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| "hiding" |
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