My son was marrying into a large Swedish family, the week before the wedding, which was held in rural Pennsylvania, they invited my wife and I to come up to meet them. They lived on this dairy farm, which was very rustic and beautiful, with a spacious farmhouse, barns and several other buildings. The night we got there it was rather late, but my son came to our room to chat for a bit and to explain life on this farm. He explained that one of there customs is on Saturday afternoons, they have a big family dinner. There is a lot of drinking and they get the sauna going, those that go into the sauna go nude.
I absolutely hate saunas, I'm claustrophobic, the idea of crowding into this small, hot, steamy room, is not for me, the times I've gone at a health club, I couldn't get out fast enough. I don't care if it is crammed full of naked Swedish beauties, I nope out of there.
After the big meal, and it was big, they had the immediate family, an aunt and uncle and cousins of the bride, they had the pool heated up and a several people carried on drinking in the pool. That was more my thing, so my wife and I put on our bathing suits and relaxed in the pool drinking schappes or whatever. The sauna was next to the pool and people in robes were going in, my wife decided to join them. She want into a changing room, came out in a robe then went in.
She later said I missed a real treat, some of the bridesmaids were in there, but my son bailed, he said he didn't want to be nude with his mother.
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