summer on sjælland continues...

Another great summer weekend in here in Sjælland (the big island we live on).

Friday I traveled out to western Sjælland with Christian’s mom, a friend and Christian’s siblings Emilie and Magnus.  We stayed at a “summer house” on the peninsula called Røsnæs just outside the city of Kaldunborg.

We took a boat trip out into the bay to look for some dolphin like fish, the closest English translation I could find was “porpoise” but I think they’re still a little different.  I don’t know, we didn’t see any in the end.  Which I’m sure you can guess, was fine by me the fish hater. ;)

We left late Saturday afternoon and I headed into Copenhagen to meet up with Jeanette for dinner, a movie and drinks.  Sounds like a romantic date, haha.  We ate at ChilliMilli and saw Shrek (the 4^th?) which was fine, definitely not as funny as the first two but anyone could have predicted that.

We were going to get a beer at a bar or something of the sort but decided to buy a few beers at the grocery store and sit in Nyhavn and people watch instead.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s my favorite thing to do on a nice day in Copenhagen.

I like to watch all the people walking by and guess where they’re from.  Come join me sometime and I will share with you my skills on guessing.

I took a train home around 11:30 and missed a connection by 4 minutes and ended up with a 200kr ($35) taxi ride home from the station.  Oh well, it was a really nice night and worth it!

Yesterday I relaxed for most of the day and then joined Christian’s uncle’s family and Farmor to Gillileje for dinner in the harbor.  I found the one bit of chicken on the menu (I’m pretty good at that) and we ate outside and enjoyed the evening sun.

We took a walk on the rocky/sandy beach there after dinner.  We looked for amber and special rocks that had what looked like petrified starfishes on them.  I found a piece of amber, not sure if that’s special or not, though.  The kids took a swim and then we started out to go home.

On the road out of the town there was a circus setting up.  They literally had just arrived and the animals were out getting some fresh air.  We stopped and got to be pretty close (without anything than a mere rope between us) to elephants, zebras, camels and horses.  Pretty cool.

In other news, most of you probably read on Facebook that I got a job here, finally!  I am absolutely  over the moon about it.  I definitely need structure and routine back in my life, not to mention a Danish income!!

I’m working remotely until the end of the month for my old job still and then supposedly I start my new job the first of August.  So I never really was unemployed, kind of nice.  I’ll know more details this week when I go in to sign some paperwork. :D

Thanks for all your love and support, as always.

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[daddy]

Jill thanks for sharing your weekend, I really enjoyed your pictures and word
.s thanks