When Two Blogs Collide

I'm sure everyone has noticed "Kelly and Mads" posting here for the past couple of months. She ran across our blog while searching Google for "Danish Lessons in Dallas". Funny enough, I was actually able to tell her where she could find Danish Lessons in Dallas and she started them! As it turns out, she lives in Allen not far from where we lived, and is getting ready to move to Herning, Denmark in June to be with her (as of this past Friday) husband Mads. The more we wrote the more we realized we had in common. I love that I met another Texan who is in the process of moving to wonderful Denmark and have enjoyed following her story of discovering Denmark as it reminds me of a time when Michael and I were falling in love with the country we have become to adore.

We had planned a few weeks ago to meet up yesterday for lunch in Copenhagen with her daughter Jess and Jess's friend Danielle. We went to a restaurant called, "Riz Raz". I had heard many good things about it from multiple people so we gave it a try. It is a Mediterranean restaurant and everything was vegetarian and very good. We all decided on the buffet and piled our plates full of food.

We had a lovely time and Mads and Kelli were completely adorable together. I honestly thought they seemed as if they had been together for many years (in a good way). Kelli was just as great in person as I imagined that she would be and Mads was fantastic. He stuck both of us as one of those very rare, genuinely nice people. Jess could have been Michelle's (Michaels sister) younger sister. They looked so very much alike and had some of the same mannerisms. It was funny for us to see. Kelli and Jess will not be in Denmark permanently until June, but I am very much looking forward to big move here.

On our way out Kelli and I hopped downstairs to to restrooms and there was a sign on the door that said the womens was out of order, and we had to use the mens. We weren't the only women in there which made it slightly less weird, but it was a little (ok a lot) strange to be not only be in line while men were washing their hands, but also strange to walk out of the stall and have man using the urinal right in front of us. That was a first. I'm glad I had someone there with me to share that story with.

Mads and Kelli

Kelli and Me
It was cold, can you tell?

"We are like Brothers" with matching hair.

Kelli and Mads, it was so great to get to put voices and motion to the pictures and writings.
Tak for en rigtig god eftermiddag! :)

After parting ways with our new friends we walked around Copenhagen for a while looking at many of the shops that were decorated for and selling nothing but Christmas stuff. We also decided we would hop into Tivoli and see what was going on there.

On our way to Tivoli I stopped to get a picture with most famous Dane, Mr. Hans Christian Anderson. He wrote, "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "Princess and the Pea", "The Emperors New Clothes", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", and "Thumblina" just to name a few. There is a huge statue of him in Rådhuspladsen just across from Tivoli. And so, I was able to cross number 126 off my list of things to do in Copenhagen before we leave. Take my Picture with the big statue.

Tivoli was CRAZY. The line to get into the park was the longest I have ever seen times 20! Since we have year cards, we got to skip the line and jump inside the park. We only stayed about 15 minutes. It was long enough to walk around a little bit and escape the insanity that was Tivoli.

I found time for one picture

We got home about 5 (after a brief stop at the grocery store because all Thanksgiving leftovers only lasted 1 day) , put on our PJs, made some tea and were lazy the rest of the evening. :)