American Swedish Institute Grand Opening
Jun. 30th, 2012 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonWell, OK, of the Nelson Center... I thought it was good. A wee bit warm, especially for us scandihoovians. The parking lot was packed, but somebody pulled out of street parking about a block away.
They had tickets for food and, err, beverages, and unlike my usual experience at Pride, where you pay $1,000.00 for seventeen tickets and everything is priced at chords of 3, 7 and 9, they sold pop and water for one ticket. And they even had a sign up which stated that left over tickets would be considered donations to the ASI. I guess they just ain't got no good Swedish math people to tell 'em how to do it. For $15 worth of tickets, I had two cups o' bheer (3 tickets each), meatballs (2 tickets) and a Swedish Pancake with whipped cream and fresh strawberries (2 tickets). They also had samosas, sausage inna bun with mashed potatoes, and ice cream. I didn't try them The were making the Swedish pancakes under an awning with portable induction hot plates, but that's not a job I woulda wanted on a humid, 90 degrees fondly Fahrenheit day. (Of course, they had it easy compared to the glass blowers...) They also sold head-pieces, for 9 or so tickets, and they wuz popular with the kiddies. Why I'd want to put pollen producing devices anywhere near I my nose, I'll never know.
The Swedish ambassador spoke, and the ASI head. I caught some Aztec dancers that seemed to have drifted in from an alternate reality, but it was the AC so I didn't complain much.
I ran into another PSJ in the shop, which seems somewhat shrunk in size. I resisted the blue plastic punch bowl because, even though it would make a spiffy rice paper bathing area, it was plastic and it wuz not cheap like me. The store area of the mansion is quite, quite barren.
They had tickets for food and, err, beverages, and unlike my usual experience at Pride, where you pay $1,000.00 for seventeen tickets and everything is priced at chords of 3, 7 and 9, they sold pop and water for one ticket. And they even had a sign up which stated that left over tickets would be considered donations to the ASI. I guess they just ain't got no good Swedish math people to tell 'em how to do it. For $15 worth of tickets, I had two cups o' bheer (3 tickets each), meatballs (2 tickets) and a Swedish Pancake with whipped cream and fresh strawberries (2 tickets). They also had samosas, sausage inna bun with mashed potatoes, and ice cream. I didn't try them The were making the Swedish pancakes under an awning with portable induction hot plates, but that's not a job I woulda wanted on a humid, 90 degrees fondly Fahrenheit day. (Of course, they had it easy compared to the glass blowers...) They also sold head-pieces, for 9 or so tickets, and they wuz popular with the kiddies. Why I'd want to put pollen producing devices anywhere near I my nose, I'll never know.
The Swedish ambassador spoke, and the ASI head. I caught some Aztec dancers that seemed to have drifted in from an alternate reality, but it was the AC so I didn't complain much.
I ran into another PSJ in the shop, which seems somewhat shrunk in size. I resisted the blue plastic punch bowl because, even though it would make a spiffy rice paper bathing area, it was plastic and it wuz not cheap like me. The store area of the mansion is quite, quite barren.
