Festive Night in Laholm

On the first day of advent (countdown to Christmas), there is a relatively-new holiday in Sweden. Me to Peter: "What's the holiday called?" Peter: (says some Swedish word I don't remember) Me: "What does that translate to?" Peter: ."Uh...Some kind of 'Sign Day' I guess you could call it. Me: "Er...Ok". Anyway, it was a much more gracious beginning to the holiday season than the day- after- Thanksgiving retail frenzy in the US. A lot of people were out and about in the town square on Sunday night. All the stores were open and served Glogg (hot spiced wine) and pepparkoker (ginger snaps).