All Saints Day

All Saints Day, Allahelgonadagen, is the first Saturday in November in Sweden. However this holiday is typically an entire weekend event with many businesses getting out a half day early on the Friday before. This is a time when people come to cemeteries to honor their relatives who have passed on. People will come anytime between Friday and Sunday and will light candles in remembrance of their loved ones.

On that Sunday we visited Skogskyrkogården, The Woodland Cemetery, with some of our friends. This cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in Sweden with about 100,000 graves. It is also a Unesco World Heritage site.

Here is Jaxon lighting a candle for his Nana.

Darby and Melynn with Emma.

Here I am with my sweet friend, and running buddy, Mirjam.

Jaxon with Hadde and Jurre.

The kids enjoyed each others company on the way home to Mirjam's where we enjoyed
a nice dinner together. It is so nice to have great friends that just live up the street!