Christmas 29.12.2009

Since the last post, we’ve been busy with all kinds of things. We visited friends on the 20th, made biscuits the 21st, went to the theatre with my parents to see Les Misrables on the 22nd and visited Louise and Mikael on the 23rd. Actually we were baking for days as we made about six different kinds of biscuits plus a lot of other Christmas sweets. The kitchen is still full of biscuit tins.

Christmas Eve we were just me, Martin and my family. Oh, and the guinea pig of course. Went to church, put the presents under the tree while watching the usual Christmas Disney Show on tv, had roast pork for dinner and walked round the Christmas tree singing before opening the presents. Plenty of biscuits on the table, of course. Lovely Danish Christmas.

On Christmas Day Martin and I went to the Anglican church in town so he could have at least something that was a bit more like home (actually we had Christmas crackers at dinner, with hats and jokes and everything). After that we decided to go see Sherlock Holmes at the cinema. Not very traditional for Christmas, but a great film.

We went to Jutland on Boxing Day to see my mum’s side of the family. Big dinner at my gran’s house, then lots of games, sweets and playing in the snow. At night my parents drove Martin and I to the train so we could sleep over at my aunt and uncle’s place. The rest of my family stayed at my gran’s house.

The next day we spent playing Bob and eating biscuits indoors even though we’d actually planned to go for a walk down to the frozen fjord. It was raining too much though, so we didn’t go outside till we had to catch our train back to Copenhagen.

Martin had to go home on Monday so we got his stuff packed and him driven to the airport. Still not a huge fan of airport goodbyes but it’s getting better.

Oh, by the way, I didn’t win the See Me photography competition. Not that I’d expected to but it would have been cool. Thanks to those of you who voted for me anyway.

Also, I don’t usually encourage reading my Danish blog on Google Translate as it makes much more sense translated by me but seriously, this one has some hilarious nonsense in it.