The University of California Study Center here takes us on a few field trips throughout the semester. For our first one we went to none other than the first ever IKEA. As it turns out, this is not the most exciting of destinations, although we did get to leave Skåne, the southern-most region in Sweden, even if only by a few kilometers. This particular IKEA, although filled with all of the same merchandise, is slightly different from the cookie-cutter stores found everywhere else, given that it was the first store ever. After getting a tour of the store, and yes that means an IKEA employee walked us around the store telling us the theories behind tricking people into putting things in their cart, we got a free lunch and visited the IEKA Museum (which takes all of five minutes to see if you keep walking).
Luckily, though, there was a second part to our daylong excursion, a castle, Wanås Slot, with a huge outdoor sculpture garden.
The woods actually looked like Vermont. I felt so at home, and the art installations were pretty fun and entertaining.
It was a huge change in scenery to be walking outside in the woods, not only from IKEA, but also from Lund, which is a lot of old buildings and very little forest. I was very happy to see this second, since I found it so much more exciting and beautiful (not that consumerism isn’t very fascinating!). I guess that I am really a country girl at heart, since seeing trees makes me feel so complete.
3 comments:
aaahhh, get thee to the forest, I understand! trade it for ikea any day. love the stone "recliner". gorgeous day here in the midwest - think we'll go walk by the river. love, connie
Hi Lillian! I finally have some time to catch up on how you're doing! I hope you can get to the forest on your own when you want to; the trailer pool looked a little quirky, but you look great in a swim suit (you're definitely not overindulging in swedish cuisine!), sorry the kitchen is a little stinky, but hey more reason to eat out. Well I'm being called to eat the gingerbread haunted house we made a couple of hours ago. Have you told the Swedes about our unique holiday. I think we're the only ones who "do" Halloween! Love and hugs, Steph
Hey Lillian, That's an amazing tree! If the branches that show at the top of the photo are from that tree, it's an oak. Cool.
Thanks for the updates!
Love, -Dad
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