Easter (Påsk) in Sweden :)

Happy Easter (Glad Påsk in Swedish)!  Easter in Sweden is in Spring which means that there are beautiful Daffodils everywhere & I guess because they flower around Easter time they are called Easter Lilies (Påsklilja in Swedish).  Here are the lovely Daffodils that my in laws gave us for our window sill.

It is also common to see coloured feathers on twigs as decorations, in people's windows, on their porches & in their gardens.  I also saw a wreath made of Easter eggs on someone's front door.  The local council even put Easter decorations on the roundabouts, sometimes coloured feathers, even cut outs of big yellow chickens.

Apparently it is also tradition for young children to dress up as Easter witches with rosy cheeks & head scarves and draw pictures of Easter things & then go to people's houses to ask for 'candy' in return.  Kind of like how children in America ask for candy at Halloween.  According to Swedish folklore, during Easter the witches fly to Blåkulla (the Blue Mountain) to meet the devil.

 There is also chocolate of course & I saw one type of chocolate Easter bunny at a store.   People paint eggs & there are Marzipan eggs & a 'Påsk ägg' for sale in the shops.  A Påsk ägg appears to be an egg shaped container filled with chocolate & lollies (candy).  There are also Påsk ägg containers with pictures all over them, which I think are quite nice.

On the Saturday night of Easter there is a family dinner consisting of yummy traditional Swedish food & Påskmust softdrink.  For ours we had awesome home made Swedish meatballs, ham, potatoes, Prinskorv & red cabbage.

I hope everyone had a fun Easter & enjoyed the chocolate & holidays!  Glad Påsk!