There is no bad weather...

For those of you who don't already know, there's a saying in Sweden that goes "There is no bad weather - there's only bad clothes" and this morning we took it to heart.  When you're surrounded by all this amazing nature, there's no reason to sit inside.

Yesterday we had seen a lonely reindeer running around outside my Mom's cottage.  The reindeer should normally be up in the mountains by now, but this one must have ran the wrong way.  When we came closer to take a picture we saw that it had a bell around its neck!  And the kids realized that it MUST BE one of Santas reindeer!!!

So this morning we cut up an apple, got our rain gear on and decided to go find the reindeer to give it a treat.  Porter figured that a "rein"deer better be out in the "rain" - unfortunately that wasn't the case...
We still had a nice walk and I got to show the kids my savviness in wrapping a finger that got burned by a stinging nettle (brännässla) or showing edible leaves and flowers.

The Santa reindeer we hope will be back some other day...  We think it was Prancer.  At least the kids were told that he probably was sent as a reminder for children to stay well behaved... ;)