A bit of this and that...

I must say that for all the times I have said that we have been busy, now is not one of those times. Søren and I have had a lot of free days and freetime these past weeks, and ironically we haven't found time to write here, hmm.

The first bout of freedays we have had were about 2 weeks back where we had a 4 day weekend because of Ascension day. Together with our bible study group, we thought we would celebrate this special day in the church by taking a little day-trip together with everyone and their familes. We went to a mini-zoo by the beach here in our area of Denmark. We all had a picnic lunch and spent most of the afternoon looking at animals. The highlight for me was holding a baby goat, he/she was so cute! Then we had some cake a coffee before heading off to one of the other members' house where we had a grill night. We had a lot of fun, just relaxing, chatting and enjoying a day off with friends.

Picnic
Ida trying to pet my little goat!

After this day-trip we still had three days left of the weekend where we spent much of the time with our past Watermarkers and their wives and kid. It was a reunion type weekend where we were at our house grilling friday night and went to a wedding on Saturday. It was so fun to be 5 out of 7 together again and laugh about old times and make some new fun memories.

We also had a long weekend this past weekend because of Pentecost and we spent the day with Søren's mom, Inger in Esbjerg. It was a beautiful day and we spent it outside where we ate both lunch and dinner on Inger's patio (Mom, you have also eaten there!) and we went mini-golfing where we were able to play two rounds and recieve the 2nd free. It was fun and Søren won the first, but I won the second!

We have also spent some of our days off enjoying the beautiful weather and nature in Denmark. We had our first visit to the ocean where we just walked the shores eating ice-cream and talking. The sky and water were so blue and the wind just as still so it was warm and pleasant. We also enjoyed the weather today working in our yard. As said before the previous owners have not done so much in the past many years, so there is a lot to do, but we are just taking it one step at a time and enjoying seeing all the changes.



Our front yard after some hard work!


Lastly, last night we spent the evening exploring and eating at an island off the west coast called Fanø. Our school had invited all of the workers to have a kind of thanks for a good school year party (even though we still have 3 weeks left). It was fun, we had to take a ferry over to the island where we then met an older lady who showed us around the island on a bus tour telling us about the history and how old some of the buildings are! It was a beautiful afternoon and it was interesting to hear about how people live and lived on this island. One of the weirdest things we did was take the bus on the beach. The shores of the ocean are actually used by buses and part of their bus routes. It was humorous to see the bus stop signs right on the beach.

Only 26 days now until we are in the USA! We can't wait!