Merry Christmas

Well it was my first Christmas in Denmark and it was very nice. The days up to Christmas I was a little bit up and down. Sometimes I really missed family and friends and the MN snow, and other times I was just thinking about how great it was that I was going to spend Christmas with Søren!

But Christmas Eve came and it was wonderful. Søren and I went up to his sister Ulla and her husband Peter's house. Søren's mom came also and of course our two nephews Lukas and Nikolaj so we were a nice group! We got there around lunch time and had a fabulous lunch. Then we relaxed, watched some Christmas cartoons and played a "Cars" computer game with Lukas. After that it was time for church. We all drove together except for Peter beacause he had to put the duck in the oven and the flæskesteg on the grill so it would be done when we got back.

The church service was nice, of course it was packed more than normal, but there were some nice Christmas songs and a good sermon. After church we came back and made the final preparations for dinner. Well Søren and the others helped with dinner.

I think I was mostly playing with Lukas.











Soon it was time to eat and it was a feast!! We had duck and pork, two kinds of potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and potato chips! (Yes normal salted potato chips, they are used for fancy meals in DK, the opposite of a football game snack!) It was so delicious and Søren and I both had 2 big helpings!


For dessert we had the traditional "ris ala monde" and Søren mom got the big almond! But as the grandmother she is, she gave it to Lukas so that he won the prize! Anyway, after dessert we cleaned up and were ready to take part in the next Christmas tradition. DANCING AROUND THE TREE! We each had some hymnals and danced/walked around the tree singing Christmas hymns for about 20 minutes. When we were done singing we all took each others hands and ran around the entire house, in and out of every room singing "Now its Christmas again, Now its Christmas again." It was a different but fun tradition!



But now it was Christmas and we were ready to open presents. Lukas and Ulla handed them out to all of us and Søren and I were both suprised about how many presents there were. It took us about 1½ hours to open all the presents as we opened only one at a time and took time to ooh and ahh after every present!!


At about midnight we were done and it was Lukas' bedtime. The rest of us stayed up and played the new board game that I got from Søren! It was fun and we were glad we were spending the night because we went to bed around 1:45. It was a wonderful day with great food, family and fun!

The next morning, Christmas morning, we ate breakfast together and cleaned up all the wrapping paper we left in a huge pile from the night before.


Søren and I ate a quick lunch before hitting the road. I was playing horn for the church service and had to be there early to practice.

The church service was great! During practice I heard that we were playing "O Holy Night" for the postlude. One of the musicians brothers was going to come and sing with us but the musicians needed to practice the song still so I sang with just to help and afterwards they insisted that I sing the first verse! It was fun to sing such a beautiful song and also as a duet.

After church Søren and I came home and Santa had visited. Our stockings were filled with little goodies and we happily opened them. I was happy to have some presents to open on the 25th and Søren, well he always likes opening presents, so it was great.


We spent the rest of the night together in our home, relaxing and just spending time together. It was all wonderful!

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas too!!!!