Yulefest Adventures

Mom was trying to find something to do today, so she looked in the newspaper and the most interesting-looking event was Yulefest at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle.  We invited Logan's friend, Spencer, to come along with us.

It kind of reminded me of the Danish Days festivals we have in Elsinore over the summer ... only it was indoors and there were a lot more old people.  ;)  It was kind of funny being surrounded by a whole bunch of white people again ... it almost felt like Utah!  Honestly, it was kind of boring, but it's fun being out!

First, Carmen enjoyed some ebelskivers:

Ebelskivers (Æbleskivers) are like ... little round pancake balls.  Grandpa (the bald one) sometimes makes them at his house during the holidays.

We went out into the hall to see if we could get in to some semi-interesting-sounding dance thing, and it started getting really crowded.  People were moving towards the back door, and someone said, "There's a fire and we're supposed to evacuate."  I didn't hear any alarms going off, but a minute later I could smell smoke.  It was like ... an electrical-smelling smoke, not a wood-smelling smoke.  Ick.

Apparently some wiring caught fire in the auditorium during a performance.

Everyone went outside and the fire department came!  It was kind of awesome.

It made for a great photo op:

Logan and Spencer are awesome goofballs:

After they let us back inside, we went upstairs and looked at all the crafts they were selling.  They had some cool knitted flap hats ...... that were made in China. -_-;  We found some hats this lady knitted.  They were only $1 so Torrey bought one for Carmen as a Christmas present.

It looks like the excitement wore Carmen out:

We joked they could make t-shirts, like, "I survived the great Nordic Heritage Museum fire" or "I survived the Yulefest fire!"  (You know, like "I survived the Carnival Splendor Cruise Spamcation!")

Speaking of the Carnival Splendor, that's the ship we were on in February when we went on our Mexico cruise.  For anyone who is worried about Carnival after the engine fire ... Carnival is amazing, I think they handled the situation fantastically, and I would totally cruise with them again.  If I were rich.  And could actually afford a cruise. ;)