summer on sjælland continues...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 3:00AM 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 4th?) 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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