Rain in the Sunroom

I am going through our videos and found this one that is kinda fun. It shows what rain looks like in our sun room. This was a really hard rain that kinda came out of nowhere. It lasted about 30 minuts and when it was said and done, we had a little neighborhood lake behind our flat from all the flooding. It doesn't thunder a lot in Denmark but the past month it seems that there is always thunder. It's crazy. And the video shows proof that I do indeed make my own tortillas! Enjoy

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

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"

I Think I'm Dead

I couldn't stop laughing at this. So I thought I would share.

Dirty Dancing

Oh my gosh! Have you seen this yet? This is soooo cute!! Why didn't Michael and I think to do this?? Oh ya, because there is no way I would have ever gotten him to agree to do this!!

The Vacation's Over

It is the big day... the day we check out of the hotel. Its been really fun and fancy feeling to be living in the hotel. It has had its pros and cons and we will miss it here and miss being here, but we will not miss not having a home. The movers arrive at our place at 8:30Am and we are hoping to be there 30-60 minutes ahead of them, so it will be an early morning for us, because we will have to have one last FABULOUS breakfast here at the hotel. So, I won't have endless internet access again until the 12th of January. I will still be able to post up here, by sending what needs to be posted with Michael to work ;) I will check my email from time to time at internet cafes and such, but not nonstop. If anyones needs anything in the next couple weeks, I would advise you to email Michael. So I guess, starting tomorrow, we start living life again and not just being on vacation.


We had a blast on New Years Eve. We got up late, went to the gym, took showers and headed towards Central Copenhagen about 2:00 to go find lunch. We ate at an excellent Italian Restaurant complete with probably the best Tiramisu either of us have ever eaten. YUM Then we took the long way home and wondered back to the hotel for a while and bummed around here. About 10:00 we headed back to the city center. We decided we didn't want to be anywhere near the town square when midnight came around after we saw the chaos of those particular fireworks being lit sideways by the drunk people, we thought it would best to be in the comforts of our hotel when midnight hit. When we left Denmark one of our best memories was that of New Years Eve and the shock we got when we saw how the Danes brought in the New Year. So, for now, I leave you with our New Years Eve Video that we made. Ok, it is more like a movie. It is long ( 14 minutes) so I wouldn't start it unless you have 14 extra minutes to spare!! All the fireworks after we leave the city are seen from our hotel room window. We are on the 18th floor.
ENJOY!!!!