When the Police came knocking..

Okay I got your attention.

This morning while Søren and I were enjoying slowly waking up to a new Sunday we heard the doorbell ring. We were still upstairs in bed and in our pj's so we didn't feel like answering the door. We knew that the Red Cross people were coming around to collect donations today so we figured it was them. Well a few seconds later there was a loud pounding at the door, which was followed up by another door bell ring and round of pounding. We thought, wow these are persist volonteers and thought they were gone. When a half minute later we heard one more knock at the door we decided we would check it out. Søren went to the window and saw a police car in our driveway. He immediately went downstairs and opened the door asking the police officer what he needed. The police man said he needed to speak to Mary and Søren could see he had a piece of paper in his hand and in bold block letters he could see it read "Confiscation of Visa" His heart immediately sank as he wondered why I was losing my right to live in Denmark. Next I came to the door and the officer explained to me that were hand delivering a letter to me where it said that they had to cancel my work visa...We thought a little bit about it and realized that all that was happening was that the work visa I had before we recieved our family reunification visa a month ago was no longer valid because a person cannot hold two visas at the same time. So I was not getting kicked out of the country, but we thought it was pretty crazy that the police had to hand deliver this message. Luckily we were able to calm down again before the The Red Cross volonteers came a little later.

So yeah, that is the drama as of lately. Otherwise things are going well for us. We are loving the balance and stress free daily life we have and how we are able to be spontanous every once in a while. Like just this past weekend. Søren was looking at buying an electric guitar using the online classified ads. As he was browsing around he saw that there was an incredible price on a very very nice electric piano. It was the same kind that I had looked at a year ago when I bought the piano I have now, but it was way too expensive. Anyway, this dream piano was now at a very reasonable price and we couldn't help but hear more. We found out that we could get the seller to come down 25% from his asking price which was already almost half the price of a brand new one and it was in great condition being only 3½ years old. So we decided to drive the hour and a half to go look at it and left there 15 minutes later with a new piano. We laughed the whole way home about how crazy we were but I am particularly happy for this spontaneous buy!!