at the nordic heritage museum in ballard we attend the thirtieth annual two thousand and thirteen viking day here in viking village as you can see there is a crowd will see what they're looking at kind of hard to hear but they're answering questions from the audience we're still taking question salmon from icicle seafood caught in bristol bray i'll ask and it has been seasoned with a special formula the spices all tell you yellow white black red and green and that's all i'm liberty to tell you about our secret spices that go on here i will tell you that this only happens with young fresh green alder wood smoke that we do in the fire ok and all of the all of the salmon is actually going to be for a dinner that you guys have yes i'll be serving dinner here nice big fat portions and won't cost you much it's worth the price of admission o are on top of their to get away from fire into a smoke ok and how many cans are usually cooking up we can do close to fifty pounds per smoker so we'll be doing around a little over one hundred pounds today and all that's going to get enough to then oh yeah we've done at the ballot people fast as many as a thousand pounds a day and feel said quite a few people ok yeah forty five minutes ok well thank you for your time and we'll head back out to the main attraction over this way and see what's going on so some of the attraction a variety of items for sale there right behind me there's also a children's area in the making area also slowed down just a little bit from the crowd that was in the children's crafts area  have lots of chalk to make drawings on the parking  they're doing some coloring ok so what are these little people supposed to be oh they're little viking  so before we head over to the beer garden to see what entertainment is over there i have this young lady with me and for those that don't know you i'm erin schott i'm the marketing communications manager here at the  biking days which year is this again this is a thirty is annual viking days and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger every year the record crowds are biking kampman is going strong and people are enjoying the battles and learning all about even beyond the warring vikings there's a lot more she vikings and that they're learning all about and i notice that you also have a few different kinds of sponsors this year yes we have lots of local and even national sponsors this year we're really excited team up with fox home entertainment who are bringing vikings of the series from history channel to d v d this fall and they're here tweeting from the event and it's just a great time to enjoy not only kind of the nordic heritage aspect of it but that local connection of our our fisherman and all the green bea it's always each morning from nine to noon and our museums open free admission all weekend which is a little perk the fried mission to viking days as well but all of the vikings related fun is happening out on the ground and i noticed the is a large viking ship has been moved around a little bit and is that a more permanent location where it is now it is a more permanent location it's one of our item we take care of the objects in our collection and one takes special care of that one so it has a permanent home and but you can see it every day outside the museum you guys are also planning to rebuild and it's going to be a beautiful museum that well again help us preserve our collection as a batter and bring even more national international artists and our words in exhibitions she's a museum into the seattle area so even though you haven't raised the full forty five years i mean you're you've actually started a groundbreaking and building or not a groundbreaking and building yet we have the property on me just a the reason we're looking at the viking poster is opal because of this young lady and you are i'm crystal bryant and i'm a twentieth century fox home entertainment and promoting the show vikings here on the season one is coming out this fall you know when this airs it'll actually already be out but for more tell us a little bit about the show if those for that haven't seen it well  aired on history and it's produced by fox and it's very the story really accurate they try to depict a lot of the things that happen in cycling days they actually got the actors to learn how to row the  really like the story and talking about the locations and why they chose which patients along with the weapons and some of the guys reenacting the battles here i know a lot about the characters as well so it's been fun to talk to them and get their take on the show speaking of vikings it was that some sort of play breaking into smaller groups now in the caribbean and with the peruvian mummies but they're still it's still used widely in fact if you buy some of these stretchy string bags that sometimes you find in the specialty markets were used by hammock the entertainment that is going on i think everybody survived ok point they'll be ready to actually do some sort of play you can hear some of the music but you can only use viking but you have to trade in cash for the viking dollar and they've got homemade ice cream as well little bit of a line up right now for we always find the women and the instructor and how many people have you been instructed today to three yards w one that was made earlier today yeah kind of started that way but it was a natural job some of the spanish salmon product is actually looking pretty good sized serving the m and dinner that day you and the volunteers that helped out during something they do every year earlier we were talking about the viking ship actually it's not technically a viking ship because it was much smaller and built about a hundred and it has changed location that it is very old now on this day you also get a check out a little bit of the where you can check up the whole museum we are going to just see a few minutes of it everything from immigration years to work time names and uniforms and it will be really interesting to see when they get their new location built coming off the ship and entering new york and i said this is just one of three levels i don't remember this sort of tenement  with the wrath hanging on three so there's it's actually pretty cool in the fact that they tried to make a lot of it pretty realistic  is pretty cool so i highly recommend coming and checking it out the other time when you can check it out is during the yule fest though a lot of these areas are actually filled with music  vendors it's kind of hard to see in the glass right now but it's a home setting so i recommend not only coming to your fest and biking days but you can also come other times just to see and see all kinds of memorabilia antiques and interesting learn more about the thirty first biking days occurring at the nordic heritage museum in ballard august sixteenth and seventeenth two thousand and four teams from ten am to five pm with 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