Christmas Weekend

Michael came home really early on Friday so we got the gym out of the way very early, came home, ate dinner and went on a little walk around Lyngby to take pictures of all the decorations and shop windows. It was FREEZING out, but we had fun.

Our Building decorated for Christmas
Our flat is on the far right at the very top.

The Window Display at Johannes Fog

Chocolate Shop Window

The Lyngby Hovedgade is the main street in Lyngby where all the shops are. It is an old cobblestone street and located just a block or two from our flat. We walk on this street daily, and Michael walks this at least 4 times a day! Once to get to work, then to get back, then to get to the gym, and back again! In the big intersection there is a big crown hanging. It is usually only up at the holiday time and in the summer around the time of the Lyngby Town Festival.

Lyngby Hovedgade Decorated for Christmas
This one looks better if you click on it to see it big.

Sunday night Michael and I made Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies and Sugar Cookies together.
The chocolate chips you buy here are much different than the ones in the states and I think are a bit sweeter and bigger, so while they were really good, I prefer them with the smaller less sweet Chocolate Chips. It actually created more of big pockets of Chocolate rather than small little bits of chocolate.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sugar Cookies
These turned out awesome!

As we started to make the cookies Michaels family called us on Skype from Lubbock from Nanas house. We were sitting (And by we I mean the laptop and webcam) were sitting at the counter so we had a good veiw of the table. It was so much fun and we felt like we were right there with them. The best was when we answered everyone started singing to us and Nana was in the background recording the whole thing. We talked with them for quite some time, and everyone was walking around and different people would sit and talk with us and it really felt like we were there. It was great.

In Denmark Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve, which is really quite funny to us. Flemming and Maja invited us over to their house to spend Christmas Eve with them and some of Mayas Family. It was a lot of fun with all the traditional food and the singing and walking around the Christmas Tree just like last year. Unfortunately, most of the pictures I took didn't turn out so well.

Dinner

Flemming and Helena