Växjö
Sorry for the station break.   My Blog tabs were reading in Swedish, and it was slowing me down.
On Friday, we took a train trip to Växjö.  It is around 240 km (roughly 140 miles) away.  Växjö is not a big town, but it has a few museums and... hey, what else did we have to do?   And we enjoyed the train trip. 

There were a lot of forests in the region of Växjö.  This allowed glass blowers to set up shop there, and so the region became a magnet for glass artisans.  There is now a glass museum there, which carries both hand crafted glass and molded glass. 
Let me share a few pictures:

The second museum we visited was House of Emigrants.  It covers immigration from 1846 to1930, when 1.3 million (or 20%) of the Swedish population emigrated, mainly to the US.   The exhibit spoke of various regions/cities which had a praticulary high Swedish immigration - including the little town of Jamestown NY.  J got a particular charge out os seeing Jametown, which is a small town near where his Mom grew up, alongside Chicago and Minneapolis. 

Lastly, we went to the area in the museum which illustrated Swedish culture and history. 

Love the top shot of the boot.

The second is part of the nativity story illustrated.

The third... I took for Jacque and Jan....

Till next time! xo