Sunday 10-Nov Kungsparket

So after attempting to go to Kungparket on Saturday and failing (we ended up spending the day in Malmo Hus museum), the kids were desperate to go and kick their ball around.  So we decided to head back to Kings Park.

The kids loved the fallen leaves - they were golden, red and everywhere!  The kids made a point of kicking pretty much every pile of leaves and had a ball.  We found a nice quiet area to kick the ball and climb some trees. Alana found a plastic bag full of clothes and toothbrushes and Tomas founded the "Hideout Club" under the branches of an overhanding tree. 

Australian Monkeys are apparently an introduced species in Sweden and the cause of a lot of noise and destruction.  They rapidly take over any tree filled areas, here's some we found:

We also found a stack of conkers and Cam loved the spikey conker shells:

 

Our Soccer skills also left a bit to be desired:

Then Dad decided to be BORING and go for a walk to have a look at the gardens around the back of Malmo Hus.

Leaves on the water:

 Turning Torso over Malmo Hus:

Windmill in Malmo Hus gardens:

We managed to make it back - via the shops to post some postcards - with only one mishap.

We found a nice empty park area where the kids could kick the soccer ball around.  Then I noticed a sign, written purely in Swedish.  I could make out a few words "access forbidden" and "parents are responsible for children."  A quick google translate failed to translate most of the other words but did reveal the words "landslides" and "subsidence".  We quickly moved on, but Kris took a photo of the sign to translate fully later as we considered our brush with death.

At work on Monday I got a friend to translate the sign.  Turns out the area was where the council plough all the snow and it says that playing in the snow is forbidden as it could collapse and may contain sharp items.  Oh well, better to be safe than sorry...