Entertain Yourself with our Blog!!!

If you are bored, this is the post to kill some time with...We have photos, photogalleries AND a video!!!!!! Enjoy!!!

Me with a Mosque

Michael on a bridge

View from Breakfast every morning... LOVELY

Michael at Breakfast
Me at Breakfast

So, while I would love to just keep posting pictures here, I figured this would be much easier. Here is Istanbul and also under that is Tallinn, Estonia, which I did LONG ago, but COMPLETELY forgot to post on here.... So there are a couple photo galleries for your entertainment! (Just click on the pictures and enjoy)

Istanbul, Turkey

Tallinn, Estonia

And FINALLY Video # 7 from Mary and Jason's visit!

I Heart You Sun!

Oh, Sun, the wonderful beautiful sun.

This is such a fantastic change from the long cold dark winter. The sun has been out and doesn't seem to want to go away. Its great. We haven't had too many rainy days either. There has been a little rain at night, but the clouds seem to clear up pretty quick. Only problem is, it has become really hard to get tired at night. The sun gives me energy and my body just doesn't want to shut down when the sun is still up. Oh well, Makes up for the not wanting to get out of bed in the winter.

I put timestamps on these pictures so I would remember the time I took them at. I took these last night and this morning. In the night shots, there is no flash nor did I do anything fancy to keep my shutter open to get more light in. I think the pictures actually came out a little darker then true life. We have about 15ish more days till the longest day of the year, then the days will start getting shorter again *sniff*

10:49PM
At this point those colors have been in the sky for a while already

11:20PM
Look still colors in the sky 30 minutes later

6:32 AM (look how high in the sky the sun is already!)
6:32 AM
Lots of people ask us if its hard to sleep. No, and we don't wake up because of the sun either. It's just really hard to GET sleepy. But once we force ourselves to crawl in bed, we fall right to sleep.

Ok, now onto Video Number 5!

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(If you didn't see the first 4 videos, refer to the previous 4 posts to find out what these are all about and to watch the others, before you watch today's video) :)

"The Partney's in Denmark: Day 5 - Lyngby

Updates and Video

Here's something crazy. It was 5 years ago yesterday (June 4th) that Michael and I stepped foot in Denmark for the very first time. I would never have guess what an important part of our lives this little country tucked up in Scandinavia would become. That also means that today is the 5 year anniversary of my dads death. It is kinda bitter sweet that those two things will always be looked at together.

We have been great. We had the Tech students here for a couple nights and they are now in their own place. It was fun to show them around and be able to help them out their first days here. Someone did it for us and we were grateful. I hope they will look back and feel the same way about us. Saturday we went out to Jen's farm for a little bbq and to watch the Denmark-Sweden Soccer Game. It was, interesting to say the least. It was a great and exciting game until it got canceled in the last minutes of the game because an angry fan stormed the field and tried to attack one of the refs. Game was halted and then called off. We were in the midsts of some very confused and not so happy Danes. None the less, we had a fun time.

Today is Constitution Day in Denmark and tonight we went over to one of Michaels co-workers and his wifes house with Klaus for a bbq. It was a beautiful day and we sat outside and ate and had a nice time.

So, thats what we have been up to.

Now, Video Number 4!!
If you didn't see the first 3 videos, refer to the previous 3 posts to find out what these are all about and to watch the others, before you watch today's video. :)

"The Partney's in Denmark: Day 4 - Bakken and Dyrehaven"

More Houseguests!!

A small handful of you (perhaps just our parents) may remember that when we moved to Denmark in 2002 we had NO IDEA where we would be living until about 1 week before we arrived. The housing office magically bumped us to the top of a waiting list for housing. The housing for students in Denmark is sparse. It is not a country you can just come to and find an apartment like you could in the states. While there are many many apartments, they are not overseen by one central office in each complex. Some people own their apartments and some rent them. Back to my story, we didn't know where we were going to live until the week before we got here. Fast forward to today. Tomorrow 2 new Texas Tech students are arriving in Copenhagen for the DTU/TTU program, and guess what? They don't have a place to live yet! We had offered to let them stay with us if they didn't get assigned anywhere before they got here, and sure enough, they arrive tomorrow and will be homeless. Well not completely, Their temporary residents is in The Partney Suite. They will stay with us for a few days at first because of our very close proximity to the university. Then they will start getting passed around from house to house. Tomorrow Michael and Jens (One of the Danes that went to TTU) are going to pick them up and take them to DTU and go with them to the housing office to get a place to live all set up. This isn't said much but one of both of our big motivators of really wanting to move back to Denmark was to help out a little more with this DTU/TTU program, so while getting news 24 hours before they came that they needed a place to stay might really stress out most people, we are glad we are here to help out. I've only meet them both once and Michael a few times. But we share that Red Raider Bond, so we aren't going to leave them wondering a new country on their own :) Now I'm off to set back up the Partney Suite, do some grocery shopping and making sure they have everything they might need! :)

And now, Today's video!
If you didn't see the 1st video, refer to the previous post to find out what these are all about and to watch the first video, before you watch todays video. :)

"The Partney's in Denmark: Day 2 - Central Copenhagen"

Mary and Jason's Trip to Denmark Day 1

It was two weeks ago today that Mary and Jason landed in Copenhagen and we had to do everything in our power to keep them awake until 9pm to help them conquer their jet lag. It was touch and go for a while, but they made it! I didn't really say much about their trip here or show many pictures because I have been working on what you are about to see. This is Mary and Jason talking about their time in Copenhagen along with telling YOU, why you should start making your plans to come and see us!!! This is one of 8 videos. Stayed tuned as I hope to get a new one up everyday...or at least every other day :)

So, without further adieu, I present to you, Mary and Jason in:
"The Partney's in Denmark: Day 1- Arrival"