A History Lesson You Don't Want to Miss.

If you like your women tall, blonde, and Swedish, we suggest you venture out this Friday night to the "Scandinavian " part of your town where they will be carousing in celebration of Midsummer Eve.

No, they're not paying tribute to a Shakespearean play. Midsummer Eve is part of Midsummer Festival, an old harvest and fertility celebration dating back to the Viking Era. Traditionally, a May pole is raised (a phallic symbol meant to "impregnate" Mother nature) and Swedes play songs, visit, and dance around it celebrating the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.

Girls also collected bouquets of seven or nine different types of wild flowers, which they believed held hidden powers on this night. If placed under their pillows, they would supposedly dream of their true love and future husband.

Today the holiday is one of the most popular festival days in Sweden, along with Christmas. In the states, Scandinavian girls are likely to be out drinking and dancing with friends. So if you really want to make an impression, show up at the bars with a bouquet of wild flowers and hand them out to girls as a conversation starter. Then you can explain all about Midsummer Eve's fertility festival, whether the girl is Swedish or not. And then maybe later she can dance around your May pole.

ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE
If you're in or around Manhattan and want to experience the spirit of Midsummer Eve, check out The Swedish Party this Friday night. For tickets, CLICK HERE.