Guests are Gone

Kevin left this morning to head up to Stockholm for a few days. He started to try to book a hostel while he was here but was having a problem finding a vacant place. Finally one person told him it was the weekend of the Denmark/Sweden Soccer Game in Stockholm. Yikes! He did finally find one place and I am sure he will have a great time up there. It's a huge game so I know the Danes and Swedes will be crazy. ;)

It was great to have both Myra and Kevin here for several days. Gave us a chance to hang out around Copenhagen and the surrounding areas before the weather starts getting super cold, though it is already pretty cold here. I had to turn on our heaters last week. Yesterday and today the sun is out and as long as its not behind a cloud it feels quite nice, but once it hides, it gets really cold.

Yesterday Kevin and I went to the Viking ship museum in Roskilde. It was just as good the second time as it was the first for me. Michael still has not been, but I need to drag him over there. He has been to the town before, just not the museum.

Wednesday at the Carlsberg Brewery

Kevin's First Windmill

Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen

Roskilde Cathedral

View towards Roskilde Fjord

Tau Beta Sigma/Kappa Kappa Psi Siblings :)

Soooooooo??? Who's next? :)

A Few More Myra Pictures

A few more pictures from Myras Visit. Day one we spent in Copenhagen. Myra LOVED the Danish furniture and design, but who wouldn't, It's so modern and chic. She must have taken 300 pictures of furniture alone! I kid I kid...maybe just 150 pictures.

Check out this talent. Testing the furniture, while taking pictures!

This thing is beautiful. It is in a chocolate shop in Copenhagen, a lovely mouthwatering chocolate fountain.

Chocolates at the chocolate shop

I know you've seen billions of pictures of Nyhavn, but I haven't really talked much about it. Hans Christian Anderson, the fairy tale writer lived at two different apartments in Nyhavn. This is one of the buildings he lived in (the red one).

Myra in a square in Copenhagen

On day two I took her to Hillerød to see Fredricksborg Slot. It was her first castle to lay eyes on and I think it was the perfect one. Again, I know I have posted lots of pictures from here, but never from the back side. Behind the castle is a lake and a beautiful garden. The weather was not so good the day we went but set a nice atmosphere.

And finally, and Action Shot of us reading a map.
Is it just me or do I look super duper short in the picture next to Michael?

Today, Kevin and I off to Copenhagen. It's a good thing I love the city so much!!! :)

The Coldest Drink Ever!

Our friend Myra has been visiting us here since Wednesday night and left this morning. She is an American living in Rome which makes a 5 day trip to Denmark quite easy. We hadn't seen her since we left Lubbock in August of 2005 so it was great to have so much time to catch up and laugh. We met at Texas Tech Library and in 2002 she went to Paris while we were living in Denmark so we flew down there to visit with her a few days in Paris. So now, the three of us have been in France, Denmark and Sweden together....and by next March we hopefully will be adding Italy to that list!

I'm going to start with Saturday because it was a extra special fun day and I'll get to the rest in the next couple days. Saturday we all went over to Sweden for the afternoon for some food, drink, and walking. Micahel and I hadn't been to Malmö since October of 2002, and we were excited to go back again.

Myra in front of Malmö Central Train Station

The Turning Torso (The tall building)
Us!

Myra and Me and the Beautiful Park

Cool Windmill

My View from Lunch

Myra at the Wine/Tapas Resturant

Tapas and Wine.
Good way to spend a Saturday!

We left Sweden and made a stopover in Central Copenhagen and went to the coolest (in every sense of the word) bar EVER. I had seen that at the beginning of the summer Copenhagen opened an Absolut Icebar in one of the hotels. We hadn't been yet, and had talked about going a few times, but never went out of our way to actually get there. Thanks to Myra showing great interest we finally made it and so glad we did. After paying to get in they threw our giant warm parkas over our head and took us to the bar where we all got our drinks in our "ice" glasses. It was a nice change as the longer your drink sat, the colder it got!

The bottom of that sign says:
"Entrance to the world of -5 C"
Thats freakin' cold!

Waiting at the Bar for our Drinks

The Bar. All that ice stacked is a bunch of glasses made of ice.
The bar was all made of ice as well.

Our beautiful, tasty and VERY cold drinks.

My Drink and Me

Myra and Michael Having a Good Time
Notice the ice table and ice walls.

Say "Cheese", I mean "Freeze"

After we warmed up in the funky courtyard we went for a nice relaxing dinner at another wine bar and enjoyed people watching.

Funky Cool Courtyard
It was probably only about 60 degrees out and it was a little chilly, but after we got out of the ice bar it felt like summer!

Surprisingly these were some of the most comfortable chairs I've ever sat in.
Myra and Anders, one of the bartenders who was nice enough to take a picture with Myra. I think she would have packed him to take home if she could have.
Cute Restaurant for Dinner.
We sat outside.
My View from Dinner

Wow that was a lot of pictures! :o)
Tomorrow our friend Kevin is stopping through for a couple days. He is backpacking through Europe right now, and we are lucky enough to be on his stop. Kevin and I were in the marching band and band fraternity/sorority together. This last week has been a very fun way to end the summer!

Oh...and Happy Labor Day!