Jazz Festival

We all 3 went down town for the Copenhagen Jazzfestival. We got to see some very different bands - both traditional jazz and t new wave. Erik's favorite I believe was Angel (sounds a bit like punk was his opinion). Ellen seemed to like River Jazz and I can't decide between Murder or Mokuto but at least both starts with "M".

These were the bands:

Bang Bang
Angel
River jazz & blues Band
Mokuto feat Herb Robertson
Murder

19th Anniversary

What a treat. Erik really wanted to cook something special for our aniversary. He spent most of the day preparing a 4 course meal. This was the menu:

Grilled scallops with marinated artichokes on a layer of rucolla. Served with home made Italian bread and tapenade.

Grilled small lobsters with a garlic parsley marinade

Grilled lampchops, butterbaked new potatoes and tzatziki

Vanilla steamed pears with creme, raspberry

Good wine was included.

It was treat which we thoroughly enjoyed. I believe we will keep the cook to ourselves :-)

Summerschool

Last week Rita went to summeschool in English with one of her friends Silke. The programme was English speaking in the morning and cheerleading practice in the afternoon. All was conducted in English and the teacher in fact didn't speak Danish at all. Rita loved it so may be we will do the same next year.

4th of July

I'm running a little behind with the photo documentation here.

Well, the photos of our 4th of July celebration with Baba, Farmor and Merete's girls didn't turn out that good. But we had a traditional cook out with burgers and barbecued chicken. No fireworks though.

One evening last week we went for a swim and as must be pretty obvious Erik and Rita had a blast.

Perspective

For some reason Erik is really fond of this picture. I just think it's the perspective fooling you. He can't be taller than me. Not yet at least.

While the cat is out

Rita has been enjoying being a single child for the last couple of days. Today we had a great day at the beach and we finished it off picking lots and lots of strawberries.

Sending off Axel

We spent a good part of the morning in the airport sending off Axel. Check-in took 2 hours and then the plane was delayed for another 2 hours. Axel had been excited all morning and took it in good stride. But he did get a bit anxious when the steward/chaperone came to pick him up. However, he was not the only one travelling alone on the flight to Atlanta. He was part of a group of 4 12-14 year olds. And he gave us a big big smile when he was escorted through security - ready for adventure!

Summer vacation I

Seeing Alex and Erik off at the station. They will be gone for 5 days biking and camping. It was pure excitement. Besides their clothes they had stuffed those bags with dvds. I wonder if they'll be able to watch them at all. In just a few hours we will see Axel off at the airport and then we will be single child parents for a while.

Final exam

Ellen had her final exam today. Erik got so excited when he heard the result that he went straight out and bought some flowers for her. It was a bunch of red roses and then one blue! He had thought a lot about it.

SRK

Rita joined the rollerskaterclub a month ago. She's been at practice 3 times. Last night was the end of season contest. Rita gave all what she head - jumping, one leg etc. and she made 4th place. She was so delighted.

Rita the folk dancer

Yesterday, we went to a folk music festival with Rita's music class. It was a lot of fun. As part of the opening act Rita's group marched on to the stage and played with all the other musicians - there must have been about 60 all together. I didn't know they had practiced dancing as well. Here is an example with both music and dance.

Premature birthday

Today we celebrated Axel's birthday. I know it's a wee premature but this was the only date we could find which worked with Axel's friend Rasmus with whom we had the party. We had rented a shed in the forrest and two weeks ago we were certain to have fine og warm weather. Well, without exaggeration I can tell the promised showers were a bit heavy. But we had fun nonetheless.

We had planned an untraditional treasure hunt where we went geocaching. Axel enjoyed searching for treasures with the GPS.

I know, I should have posted a photo of Axel with his cake, but I really liked this picture of the kids on the treasure hunt in the rain.