So here we go - mega update!
Lets start with work......
Every second year in November, we hold a Christmas Bazar at the school where I work. A few months before this Bazar the kids sell tickets to raise money for the school. For the last 3 Bazars I have been in charge of the fund raising and this year I am too. I really enjoy it but there is a bit of extra work involved.
We always have something visual to show the children how much money they have raised. This stands constantly at the front of the Assembly hall. The children that sell 25 or more tickets are known as "super sellers" and they get different prizes/rewards for the amount they have sold. I call their names up at Assembly and they get their prize. So over the past 2 weeks work suddenly got really busy.
This year I have my friend Frankie helping me keep track of the money that comes in. He is a leprechaun that has come the whole way from Ireland (although he speaks great Danish!).
The idea for keeping track of the how much money we have raised is a rainbow, or rather lack of one.
We have to build a rainbow over to the pot of gold. The more money we raise the more colours come on the rainbow. Frankie comes every Friday with rainbow colours, if we have raised any money! The pot of gold also gets some "gold coins" - so our aim is to fill out the whole rainbow with colour and fill the pot of gold with coins. The kids just love this. My boss, who is Frankie, and I do a sketch every Friday at the Assembly to help encourage the kids to get out and sell tickets. It really is great fun.
Two weeks ago my friend Laura got herself a new kitten too. She is just the cutest wee thing (nearly as cute as Zoey! :-) She also has an older cat already. He has just taken such a liking to the kitten, already from the second day! It is sooooo cute to see them together, they play together and sleep together.
Shadow and Zoey are not so chummy. Zoey really wants to be Shadows friend, she follows her around the house but Shadow basically wants to be left in peace.
Last weekend it was time for a roadtrip. Sara had invited us over for the weekend. It was Kristian´s first weekend without a go-kart race on the calendar in weeks, so we could have done with the weekend at home to work on stuff around the place but in the end we decided to head over to Århus to visit Sara and Christian. The house things could wait!
Both Sara and Christian had birthdays that weekend. Christians was on the Saturday and Saras was on the Monday. So we were going over to celebrate with them.
After work on Friday we came home, packed and started our roadtrip. We were all excited, like a couple of kids. We really love doing roadtrips. Half way there and Kristian said he had a surprise, he had booked dinner for us at a restaurant that he had read about. I was impressed! Usually when we do roadtrips its McDonalds at the drive through but this time Mr Rasmussen had done his homework.
The restaurant was sooo cosy and inviting and the food was absolutely delicious! It was in Ringe, a place I had never been before, so after dinner we had a walk through the town. Nothing was open as it was 7.30pm when we arrived there but it is a place I would like to explore at some other time. After dinner we headed on and arrived in Århus just after 10pm.
Saturday was Christian´s birthday and so the celebrating started with brunch together with Christian´s parents. We had such a lovely morning with them. Then we headed out for a few hours to a shopping centre so Sara and Christian could exchange some gifts that they had gotten. We bought some food for dinner and headed back home. The plan was to cook some good steaks and then have an evening of playing games.
In Jutland, the part of Denmark where Århus is, they spray you with cinnamon when you turn 25 and you are not married. So just after we arrived home from shopping the doorbell rang and there was Christían´s brother Martin and his friend Daniel. They told Christian to change clothes for he was about to get sprayed!!
The poor guy!!! They tied him to a lamp post and threw cold water over him, then cooking oil. They then got a couple of fire extinguishers that were filled with cinnamon and he got a blasting from them. He was covered in cinnamon!
After Christian got cleaned up we made dinner and Sara invited Daniel and his girlfriend to stay for dinner. Christian´s brother had other plans. So we had a lovely evening together eating the most delicious food. We then cleared up and played a fun game called Hint. It was such a lovely evening.
Sunday morning we got up early. We wanted to make an early start so we could get home by early afternoon. As soon as we had packed and eaten breakfast we said our goodbyes and started for home. We had such a lovely weekend with the family in Århus.
Monday morning my alarm clock rang at 4.00am! I wanted to get up and see the blood moon. I tried to wake Kristian to get him to go out with me to see it, but it wasn´t happening. So it was just me by myself watching this amazing happening. After 5 minutes I headed back to bed, searched the internet for a live cam and watched the rest of it live on my phone, in my cosy warm bed with Kristian snoring away beside me!
Wednesday I was out visiting my friend Rhona. She cooked dinner and I went by after work to eat her delicious food. We had such a lovely evening together just catching up on each others lives. I am sooo blessed to have her in my life.
I left Rhonas around 9pm as Sara was coming home. She was flying this time into Copenhagen airport and Kristian was going to pick her up on his way home from go-kart. I was looking forward to having her home for a few days, even though we had only just been in Århus. She was coming to us on Wednesday because she was flying on to the great USA on Friday, she thought a few days at home before her long flight was just what she needed.
Sara flew out on Friday morning for the USA. She is going over to visit her friend Christine, who is living there. Christine is racing over in the States (as a professional racing driver) and so Sara was going to see her race in her last big race.
Unfortunately for Sara the plane was delayed from Denmark and so she missed her connecting flight. She had to stay overnight in Amsterdam and it looked like she would first get a flight out to the states on Monday morning, which would mean Sara would have missed all the race - something she had been soooo looking forward to.
Unfortunately for Sara the plane was delayed from Denmark and so she missed her connecting flight. She had to stay overnight in Amsterdam and it looked like she would first get a flight out to the states on Monday morning, which would mean Sara would have missed all the race - something she had been soooo looking forward to.
However, they were able to get her a flight out from London on Saturday afternoon, so she flew from Amsterdam to London and then made the connecting flight. The last we heard from her, she had landed safely but was feeling really sick from flying and so as soon as she got of the plane, she threw up! Honestly - there is always drama when Sara is around! haha
Ok that was my mega update. It was early Saturday morning when I started this and it is now late Sunday evening!! It really was a long update!!! :-)
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