This week we will race through Sweden. It is located in Scandinavia and is famous for exporting build it yourself furniture throughout the world. Just kidding. It is actually famous for being the homeland of the Rytting family!
A Swedish landscape video
ROADBLOCK
Take a Chance
a church in Alsike
So many immigrants took a chance and sought a better life, economically and religiously including the family of Charles Frederick Rytting
He was born in Krusenberg, Alsike, Uppsala, Sweden. His family settled in Granstville, Utah. This is a distance of around 5,000 miles (probably as the crow flies)
The roadblock this week is to walk at least 5 miles, while listening to the music of ABBA. You don't have to do it all in one go. They have many songs to choose from :)
DETOURS
Click on the link above for an article about Lordagsgodis.
Apparently part of Swedish Culture is that you only eat sweets on Saturdays!
This detour should probably be worth 50 points, for me anyway, but of course it is only 5.
The detour is to only eat sweets on Saturday this week!
Tomten
Tomten are gnomelike creatures that live in Sweden.
They help protect your home or farm.
They like you to take care of your belongings.
So this detour is to make sure you don't leave any of your belongings laying around in the public living spaces of your home by the time you go to bed, otherwise you won't get 5 points and a tomten might play a trick on you.
A story about tomten by Astrid Lindgren (who wrote Pippi Longstocking)
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