Amusement Park in Stockholm

After a long week of work and stating home bound, we finally made it out. Thomas took us to an amusement park he had been to when he was nine with his parents. It's called Gruna Lund, (I think it translates to Green land). It was a beautiful day and it was great to see a part of Stockholm. It was about 1 hr 45 min away from the house but the trickiest part was that there was no specific parking for the park specifically. That is strange to me bc even at the Bronx zoo there is parking for a fee. Well all directions online made suggestions from each directions to park on the outskirts and take first a train then a tram in to the park, and it even talked about a bridge you could walk over since it was closed to traffic other than taxis and buses on the weekends. We decided to get as close to the park as possible and then park and try to walk. It worked out bc parking on the streets was free on the weekends and there wasn't a ton of traffic as I imagine there could be on a weekday. 

Walking over the bridge:)

This amusement park was very nice. The cool thing was you paid about $15/ person to get into the park then you could buy a wristband for riding all the rides, or you could pay per ride. We bought the kids a wristband and that put their ticket around $50, but they had a great time and we mostly watched them and met them after the ride. 

This ride Alex rode but Ben was too short...

This was a staircase of a funhouse. It was moving each side against the other side so you had to get a rhythm to climb it. Both Thomas and I watched as people struggled and held on and almost fell, but we commented that there was no one supervising and that they could fall down at anytime. Later we did see that they had the power to stop it if someone was struggling, but if still seemed dangerous to the uncoordinated:)

They rode a giant skyscraper swing!

Coming down from the swing

Of course there were bumper cars...

And Thomas rode a free fall ride with Alex:)

The most unusual thing I saw there that I never saw at an amusement park in the states was a game they played for a giant box of candy! It was gambling, they placed money on a number and if it came up they won. Here are picks of the prizes...

They won Cheesedoodles...

Other candies that could be won. By the end of the day, many people were carrying these. We tried once but lost:(

It was a great day and we made it home by eight to have some grilled burgers on Thomas's new grill:)