The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

This is a Swedish sheep.

It’s a lot like other sheep.

These Swedish sheep are special because they shed their wool.

So the farmers can just pull it off instead of shearing them.

This is a Swedish rooster.

They are extra hardy and good at being cold, which is important in Sweden.

This is a Linderöd pig, the only native pig breed in Sweden. It apparently looks very different from a modern pig. We haven’t spent enough time with pigs to notice.

This is a Swedish goose.

Skansen is kind of like Fort Edmonton Park, except that Skansen was already a historical park in 1891, when Fort Edmonton was still a fort.

So the historic buildings aren’t basically identical to Grandma’s house. Also the guy who owned this house was definitely richer than all of our grandmas combined.

The sami that live way up north build these storehouses on stilts to keep the pests out.

They live in these goahtis which are kind of like tipis but with more peat.

This is a modern summerhome that looks like a goahti because apparently the owners missed being crammed in a tiny space so they do it while on vacation.

This is a windmill.

This is a model of the houses poor people lived in in the 19th century.

This is a rune stone.

This is an old pill maker from the pharmacy.

This is a delicious cinnamony thing.

This is an engineering worshop from the 1920s

This is the incoming power for it, which weirdly was 120V 60Hz. So if you’re ever time travelling to old Sweden you don’t need to remember to pack a converter.

We went to the giant ship shaped museum.

To see a giant ship.

It once looked like this.

All painted and pretty.

But now it has no paint.

Because it wasn’t balanced and sailed with the cannons out.

So when it tipped water got inside them and it sank.

The sailers probably didn’t get a chance to play backgammon.