Summer vacation vol. 1

Marianne:
Vacation time! And it´s well deserved. We have both been very busy during the spring and we needed to reload the batteries. We had weeks in Northern Jutland ahead of us. We left on Friday the 22nd after we had made arrangements that our neighbor Hanne, would water the flowers and mowing the lawn. We feel very privileged that we have some very nice new neighbors in Farum.

On Saturday we went to Blokhus, where the very traditional bob tournament was taking place. (Bob is a board game very similar to Carrom - a game of Eastern origin.) As usual, the venue was my uncle Fleming and aunt Annes´s nice summer house (Camp Friis). Actually it had been 3 years since the last tournament and most of the participants had not played since then. For good reasons, Michael and I hadn´t participated for many years, so we decided that now was the time for one of us to get his/her name on the trophee.. Tobias made a nice plan for the tournament - and to make a very long story short, Michael met Tobias in the semi finals. I met Kathrine (Tobias´s wife and my cousin). Both matches were exciting a close - resulting in me meeting Tobias in the finals. Kathrine and I agreed that it was about time for a female winner - that hadn´t happend since the first year of the tournament. Well, unfortunately I was up against a better competitor, resulting in me having to make a speech in favor of the winner.

Fleming elegantly opened the winner bubbles with a sabel. After that we were ready to go to the beach for a bath.

Unfortunately I forgot by bathing suit back home in Farum, so I didn´t get into the water. After that situation I decided to go buy another one, and since then even I have opened the bathing season. Michael - not at all. He´s not into bathing if the water is less than 25 degrees - so it doesn´t happen very often around here...

We walked back to Camp Friis, where dinner was home made burgers and hotdogs. Fleming was the grill master - and he really deserves some respect, since he defied the weather and made certain that we could eat some well made hamburgers and sausages.






Monday and Tuesday mom and dad were visiting here. They invited themselves for a work camp - and we gratefully accepted. We washed the house, since it was almost covered in algae - or what ever it was that made the house look a bit worn. As you can se from the before- and after pictures below, it made the world of difference. The weather was perfect for doing something like that and we actually finished the project that same day. We all enjoyed doing this together - and it definitely paid of!

After a well deserved shower, we served some snacks and red wine on the patio, while Michael was grilling the dinner.

Tuesday we polished the windows - something that we don´t do very often... So it was needed. The men did the outside and mom and I the inside (here you had to be more careful not to waste the water...) We also cleaned a bit. Michael and dad changed some planks in the patio and the out door furniture was oiled. Prior to that, I´d cleaned them with a flusher. They all now look great.

On Saturday we too the bikes on the beach to Løkken. On the way we saw a lot of hang gliders. There was quite a bit of wind and they seemed to like that.

By the pier in Løkken there was a great gathering. It turned out to be some so-called Beach Games. A competition reminding of some sort of cross-fit. It was fun to watch the girls fighting the waves. 

We went to the town square and found a great table outside the Café Frandsen, where we had a very nice brunch. After that we drove back home - this time by the road. I had to stop on several occasions, since it all looks so beautiful right now.

It´s actually pretty fun to be here in high season. There are so many people here - something we rarely experience. We have had been stuck in traffic jams several times. That´s pretty crazy for this part of the country.

Back at the house, we mowed the lawn and generally made ready for the visit from Ingrid and Dominique the following day. We are looking so much forward to it!