Dalahäst!

11/1/2012

Today Emma, Jonas, Filippa, and I went to Avesta, a small town 30 minuets away from Sala, to visited the world's largest Dalahäst!    A Dalahäst is a giant wooden horse. The horse is painted in one base coat with a colorful saddle painted on top. The Dalahäst we visited was a bright red orange with a beautiful orange saddle. They are beautiful and the different colors mean different things. For example, the red orange color means power. We ate lunch at a small cafe next to the Dalahäst before traveling 30 more minutes to Norberg.

On our way to Norberg, and on the way to Avesta from Sala, we passed several small lakes all connected to each other by canals. These lakes were used to power the pumps that pumped water out of the silver mines. We also crossed one of Sweden's longest rivers, Dalälven, twice.

In Norberg we stopped at a very famous very small cafe called Elsa Andersson's Konditori. The cafe is in a very old house and it has many rooms filled with large wooden tables and big soft couches, sofas, and chairs. We met a man with his daughter who had moved to Sweden a few years ago from Kentucky. While we were at Elsa Andersson's Konditori we ate the famous tango cake. Tango cake is a light fluffy cake filled with whipped cream and pineapple with a thick fruity frosting on top that was kind of like fondant. It was quite good, nothing like I have ever tasted before. After we came home from Norberg, Emma gave me a tour of Sala. She ran and I biked around Sala. We passed the firehouse, Filippa's school and several of the neighborhoods. Tack så mycket, förrän senare.