40 years old....

Kristian´s old school had a 40th anniversary yesterday. He, his mum and all his brothers and sisters travelled back to the Island of Fyn to be at the celebrations.

Kristian´s dad started the school 40 years ago. He felt that God wanted him to start this Christian school. A school were you would be allowed to pray and teach about God, a school built on Christian values. What he started back then has grown and is still going strong today. 

Above is what the school looked like when Johs started with just a handful of students. 

Above is the school today.

They had a great evening together. Since Kristian was already half way over to Sara he decided he would go and visit her and spend the weekend. Her Christian is racing and so they will go to the track and watch him race. A perfect weekend for the both of them!! 

Meanwhile I hope to get some painting done this weekend....:-) A perfect weekend for me! :-)

Night out...

....with me good chum, Laura.

This evening (Wednesday) Laura and I headed to the local cinema. I had gotten tickets for the film "Before Midnight"  I had seen the first two films "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" (can´t remember the order!) and I enjoyed them soooo much so I was looking forward to this one.

It wasn´t how I expected it to be, but I wasn´t disappointed. I really enjoyed it. Laura did too. So all in all a good night out! Nice to do something different in the middle of the week!

Monday evening and there was drama on our road. We get a lot of bikers coming through our area. They are serious bikers with expensive bikes and gear. They ride at top speed and as one of the bikers passed our house a cat ran out and the biker hit him!!! Thankfully it wasn´t our Shadow but it was our neighbours cat, Charlie. A beautiful orange cat! The biker tried to brake but ended up going over the handle bars, he and his bike were not in good shape. The cat was also not looking so good. Some of our neighours got the man and his bike sorted out and took him home. The owners of the cat were also out trying to rescue the cat, who had crawled into hiding. Awful thing to happen and Andrew saw it all, as he was out chatting on the phone with Camilla. That conversation was cut short!!! There is never a dull moment out here!!

Not doing good......

.......at this blogging stuff.

Another week has gone by without a word from me!! It is just getting too easy for me to be lazy!

So a quick update....

Last week everyone started back again to work and school. Leah started a new school and was a bit nervous about it, but she had a great time last week getting to know her new teachers and class mates. There are only 2 other girls in her class but so far all 3 of them have hit it off. 

She will be at this school for a year with a focus on drama and music.

Friday our neice Christine got baptised. She had been in the USA for a few months and while there had a real encounter with God, so she wanted to confirm her faith in Jesus through being baptised. 

It was held in Kristian´s brother´s house, with his older brother baptising her.  It was a really special service and when it was finished the family spent the rest of the afternoon and evening together.

Love is still in the air between Andrew and Camilla. However Leah and her boyfriend are now over.

Sara and Christian arrived home for the weekend. They were going to the baptism too and then they spent the rest of the weekend with us. It was lovely seeing them again.

We mostly relaxed, went a walk down to the lake and went to check out the drive-in cinema close to us. It was also perfect weather for a BBQ. 

I´m back!!!!

I have been a bit quiet on the blog for the last week but now I am back again!! 

I am also back at work. I started on Wednesday and it is actually good to be back again, although I must say, I am thankful that it´s the weekend again! It is hard getting back into the routine of getting up early and going to bed early too.

So the last week of my holidays went by fast....

We slept in a tent in the garden, something we have never been able to do before, when we lived in the apartment. Leah and Mia slept a few evenings in there then Laura and I also had our turn. It was so cosy. I couldn´t get Kristian out there though, after a week in a tent at Le Mann in France, he had had enough!

Hubby and I also had quite a few dates over the week, while Leah was at work! 

 We loved walking around the castle grounds! So beautiful, we actually went on a lot of evening walks throughout the week...

We also celebrated Andrew´s 20th birthday! I can´t believe he is 20!! (and still soooo in love!)

We celebrated by going on a picnic to a beautiful forest which also has an amusement park on the outskirts of it. They had a great day on the rides and I enjoyed sitting in the sun in the forest reading my books. We ended the evening by eating at one of Andrew´s favourite restaurants, The Mexican!

Home again after a great week in Austria. The weather was fantastic and so was the scenery. We enjoyed the mountains and views. We have left a little piece of our heart in Austria.

I have been a little lazy with the blog while on holiday so here is an update....mainly for myself so I can look back in a year or two and read about what we did while in Austria......

So Tuesday we relaxed A LOT!! :-) 

We drove to Zell am See but there were just too many people at the lake so we couldn´t get parked, so we just enjoyed the views from the car. 

 We decided to head back to Rauris to get ourselves an ice cream and play a little mini golf.

We had fun but it was just too hot so we cut the mini golf game short!

In the evening it was out to dinner to try another local restaurant. It was sooo cheap to eat out there! (At least compared to Denmark!) 

Wednesday we decided to go away for the day, so we drove for about an hour northwards and went to see The Eagles Nest which was Hilters summer residence. What an amazing place!! To think that someone went to all the trouble to build such a place as a gift to Hilter just blows my mind! 

The views were spectacular!

To get up to the residence you had to walk through a long tunnel and then up in an elevator. This was the evlvator. Kristian managed to get a bit of a picture of it......

It was a little weird to be in a place were you knew Hilter had spent some time. That such an evil man got to enjoy such beautiful nature and surroundings seemed so unfair. It also made me think of the power of one man. I wondered about how much good he could have done in the world if he had chosen differently. I did a lot of wondering as I wandered about on top of that mountain.

We ate lunch at the restaurant and then we headed down into Salzburg to enjoy the last part of the day there.

Thursday was another relaxing day. A short walk to town to visit some of the gifts shops made me very happy!. Kristian went a walk in the nature with his camera.

 We also spent a lot of time playing Scrabble! My mother-in-law is sooo good at it. We had to play Danish words so it was good for building up my vocabulary. I learned 3 new Danish words! 

Friday I decided I wanted to spend at home just reading and relaxing. Kristian and his mum fancied going a short drive to the end of the valley to explore the nature down there. The kids wanted to stay at home with me and relax. It was a lovely day.

Friday evening we were out eating again! It was after all, our last evening so we wanted to live it up! After a delicious meal it was home to pack and get ready for the long journey home. 

We left Saturday morning at 10am. The weather was a little too hot, most of the day it was 38 degrees as we drove up through Germany. We were thankful for our air con! It was on full blast the whole day. Kristian did a great job driving us home. We arrived home at 4am in the morning at my mother-in-laws house. By this stage we all were so tired so we camped down at Kristian´s mum´s house to sleep for a few hours. After a few hours sleep and a bite to eat, we were on the road home to ourselves.

It was lovely to come home again. Lovely to see Shadow and off course our neighbour!  Out is good but home is best! 

Austria....

We are having a fantastic time in Austria. We left Denmark Friday morning and travelled down through Germany. We had a great trip, no traffic jams, everything went like clock work. We spent the night in Kassels.

Saturday morning we left Kassels and hoped to be in Austria by 6pm. That did not happen. There were soooo many traffic jams through out Germany, so we arrived 2 hours after we planned, at 8pm. We were thankful when we finally got the keys to the apartment and we could get in and settled.

The apartment is wonderful......

Sunday we relaxed and then went to explore the town of Rauris. We decided we would explore the mountain close to us and so we took the ski lift up to the top - a height of  approx. 1750m. 

 I will admit I was a bit scared about going up in the ski lift. I am not great with heights! But it went ok!

We ate lunch at the top of the mountain and late afternoon we returned to the apartment were we all just relaxed, each in our own way.

 Sunday evening, Leah, Kristian and I went a walk. It was a beautiful evening. 

Today we wondered what we should do. The kids wanted to stay at home to hang out in the apartment, go to the pool and just relax. Us oldies wanted to go out and explore so that´s what we did. We decided to head over the biggest mountain in Austria...Grossgluckner. It was amazing.

When we returned we headed out to eat dinner together. A really great day!