--- ---  # Let Jennifer Garner Tell You About That Time She Got Stranded in a Kayak in Sweden  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 6, 2018 5:03 PM UTC  THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0918 -- Pictured: (l-r) Actress Jennifer Garner during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 5, 2018 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0918 -- Pictured: (l-r) Actress Jennifer Garner during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 5, 2018 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 6, 2018 5:03 PM UTC A few weeks ago, [Jennifer Garner](http://time.com/5185749/jennifer-garner-oscars-2018-meme/) announced to the world via her [very delightful Instagram](http://time.com/5187506/jennifer-garner-shocked-face-oscars-meme-response/) that she and her eldest daughter got lost in a kayak in Sweden this summer. In the post, Garner mentioned that despite paddling “as hard as we could for 100 hours,” they ended up in a shipping lane and had to be rescued by a mysterious hero named Mattias. As might be expected, this scintillating tale left many of her followers with questions, which were all answered when Garner appeared on [_The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon_](http://time.com/5348309/jimmy-fallon-trump-news-network-2/) on Wednesday night. In the interview, Garner explained how the pair ended up in Sweden. Apparently, her daughter had done a class project on Sweden that interested her so much that she thought that “maybe” she was a socialist, prompting Garner to whisk her away to Sweden for a quick trip before her daughter began middle school. After arriving in Stockholm, Garner revealed that she and her daughter accidentally drifted into a shipping lane that led to the ocean and that to distract them from the current, she had an apropos suggestion: “La la la, let’s sing _Mamma Mia!_ We’re in Sweden.” After calling for help from the kayak company, a very blonde employee named Mattias came to Garner and her daughter’s rescue. Watch Garner charmingly retell the story below. Jennifer Garner Explains How She Got Lost in Kayak in Sweden ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5388840/jennifer-garner-explains-kayak-sweden-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5388840/jennifer-garner-explains-kayak-sweden-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Let Jennifer Garner Tell You About That Time She Got Stranded in a Kayak in Sweden","datePublished":"2018-09-06T17:03:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:42.579Z","description":"There's a good explanation for her crazy story","url":"https://time.com/5388840/jennifer-garner-explains-kayak-sweden-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3362c8905ac785c/69893996bc6cfc794f3e6e25/jennifer-garner-kayak-sweden.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3362c8905ac785c/69893996bc6cfc794f3e6e25/jennifer-garner-kayak-sweden.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 5","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 5","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5388840/jennifer-garner-explains-kayak-sweden-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Let Jennifer Garner Tell You About That Time She Got Stranded in a Kayak in Sweden"}}]}] ```