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!