We celebrated Christmas Eve by taking a winter boat tour that took us in and around parts of the archipelago. Before we left, Belle, my mom and I opened one of our Christmas gifts that I had bought for us. Everyone got Swedish mittens, which were very warm and useful for a cold Christmas Eve day.
The hour and half long tour took us out to and around the island of Fjäderholmarna. During the cruise, we saw many of the popular sights while learning interesting facts and history about Stockholm by our tour guide. The ship is an ice breaking ship, but we it wasn't cold enough yet for the harbor to have frozen.
While we could have enjoyed an open air tour on top, we chose to stay inside where it was warm and sip piping hot Glögg, instead.
After the boat tour, we all went back to the apartment to partake in another Swedish tradition of watching Donald Duck.
Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the television for a family viewing of the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas special, "From All of Us to All of You." Or as it is known in Swedish ,Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul: "Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas." Kalle Ankahas been airing without commercial interruption at the same time on Sweden's main public-television channel, TV1, on Christmas Eve since 1959. The show consists of Jiminy Cricket presenting about a dozen Disney cartoons from the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s. We all enjoyed our Swedish Christmas Eve.
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