Hejhej everyone! Today was my first wild mushroom picking experience. It was also my first run-in with a poisonous snake in the wild! (Mom when you read this don't panic. Everything's fine.)
So two Swedish girls, two girls from CA and myself, drove out of town and down this dirt road/path into the forest. We walked a ways back into the woods and picked mushrooms and had "fika". Fika means a break during the day where people talk and drink coffee. It's a very popular tradition in Sweden. So we sat down on a log and had fika in the middle of the forest. We also found lots of good mushrooms to eat! There's tons of different kinds of mushrooms that grow where we were, so we had to be extra careful to pick the right ones. But we found quite a few and they are TASTY. While we were picking, I stepped right on top of a black snake. I don't think I hurt it, but it scared the crap out of me! Frida, one of the Swedes I was with, says that seeing black snakes are a sign of good fortune and it's pretty rare to see them in the wild. They're also completely harmless. I'm not sure about that good fortune bit because about an hour later I almost stepped on another snake... except this one happened to be poisonous. Sweden has only one type of poisonous snake and this was it. It's a burnt orange color with a jigsaw pattern on it's back. Maybe it was good fortune I didn't get bitten?
On the way out of the woods we stopped at a summer cottage that belonged to one of the girls' boyfriend's grandparents. (A bit confusing I know.) The cottage was right next to a GORGEOUS lake. It was a nice ending to a really good Sunday afternoon.
GOTLAND this upcoming weekend!!!
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